Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing and the Caucus-race, sentence 8

The Mouse is "a person of authority among them", meaning someone the others obey; they all sit "in a large ring, with the Mouse in the middle", and Alice watches it anxiously, sure she will "catch a bad cold" if she does not get dry soon.

Who acts: Mouse, others, Alice, argument · What happens: be, mean, obey, sit, watch, catch · To what, where: person, someone, large ring, Mouse, bad cold · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing and the Caucus-race» 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, others, Alice, argument), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mouse	det
2	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 person	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 person	cop
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 person	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 person	det
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 authority	case
8	authority	authority	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 person	nmod
9	among	among	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 authority	nmod
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 person	punct
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 meaning	punct
13	meaning	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 person	advcl
14	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 meaning	obj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 others	det
16	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 obey	nsubj
17	obey	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 someone	acl:relcl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 sit	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sit	nsubj
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 sit	det
21	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 person	parataxis
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 sit	punct
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 ring	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 ring	det
25	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 ring	amod
26	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sit	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Mouse	punct
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 Mouse	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Mouse	det
30	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sit	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 middle	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 middle	det
33	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Mouse	nmod
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 Mouse	punct
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 watches	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 watches	cc
37	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 watches	nsubj
38	watches	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 sit	conj
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 watches	obj
40	anxiously	anxiously	ADV	_	38 watches	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 anxiously	punct
42	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 watches	advcl
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 catch	nsubj
44	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 catch	aux
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	46 catch	punct
46	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 sure	ccomp
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 cold	det
48	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 cold	amod
49	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 catch	obj
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	55 get	punct
51	if	if	SCONJ	_	55 get	mark
52	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 get	nsubj
53	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 get	aux
54	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	55 get	advmod
55	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 catch	advcl
56	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 get	xcomp
57	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	55 get	advmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 person	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	the Mouse	a person		of authority among Alice	tree rules
2	mean	gerund	the Mouse not said here	someone			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Topic
3	obey	present	the others				vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	sit	present	others = other		a large ring	with the Mouse in the middle	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in ring=Location
5	watch	present	Alice	Mouse		anxiously property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	catch in a quote	future	argument	a bad cold			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme
7	not get a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	argument			dry, soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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:005-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race.lesson:8.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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