Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse, sentence 4
She calls it back kindly, it promises to tell her why it hates cats and dogs, and Alice leads a crowd of soggy birds and animals to the shore: a funny, slightly awkward scene about putting your foot in it.
Who acts: mouse, sentence, Alice, funny awkward scene · What happens: call back, promise, tell, hate, lead, put · To what, where: sentence, mouse, cats, crowd, shore, foot · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mouse, sentence, Alice, funny awkward scene), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 calls | nsubj |
| 2 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 calls | obj |
| 4 | back | back | ADP | _ | 2 calls | compound:prt |
| 5 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 2 calls | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 promises | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 promises | nsubj |
| 8 | promises | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 calls | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 tell | mark |
| 10 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 promises | xcomp |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 tell | iobj |
| 12 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 hates | advmod |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 hates | nsubj |
| 14 | hates | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 tell | ccomp |
| 15 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hates | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dogs | cc |
| 17 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 cats | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 leads | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 leads | cc |
| 20 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 leads | nsubj |
| 21 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 calls | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 crowd | det |
| 23 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 leads | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 birds | case |
| 25 | soggy | soggy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 birds | amod |
| 26 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 crowd | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 animals | cc |
| 28 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 birds | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 shore | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 shore | det |
| 31 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 leads | obl |
| 32 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 38 scene | punct |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 scene | det |
| 34 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 scene | amod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 awkward | punct |
| 36 | slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 37 awkward | advmod |
| 37 | awkward | awkward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 scene | amod |
| 38 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 leads | obl |
| 39 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 40 putting | mark |
| 40 | putting | put | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 scene | acl |
| 41 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 foot | nmod:poss |
| 42 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 putting | obj |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 it | case |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 putting | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 calls | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call back speech: assert | present | mouse | sentence | kindly property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | |||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | present | sentence | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | sentence not said here | mouse | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | hate | present | sentence | cats and dogs | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | lead | present | Alice | a crowd of soggy birds and animals | the shore | a funny awkward scene obl | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent crowd=Theme to shore=Destination | ||
| 6 | put | gerund | a funny awkward scene not said here | your foot | sentence | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme in it=Destination |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:books:004-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears.lesson:4.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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