Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse, sentence 7
She calls it "a narrow escape", meaning a near miss with danger.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: call, mean · To what, where: fan, near miss · 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 (Alice), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 escape | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 escape | det |
| 6 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 escape | amod |
| 7 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 calls | parataxis |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 escape | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 meaning | punct |
| 10 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 calls | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 miss | det |
| 12 | near | near | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 miss | amod |
| 13 | miss | miss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 meaning | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 danger | case |
| 15 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 miss | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | 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 speech: assert | present | Alice | fan | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | gerund | Alice not said here | a near miss | with danger | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miss=Topic |
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:7.
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): no change. 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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/4-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears/7/