Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again, sentence 2
The Mouse begins its "long and sad tale", but Alice is staring at its long tail, mixes up the words, and then hears "not" as "knot", so the Mouse stomps off insulted.
Who acts: Mouse, Alice, prize · What happens: begin, stare, mix up, hear, stomp off, insult · To what, where: long tale, words · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again» 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, Alice, prize), 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 | 3 begins | nsubj |
| 3 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 tale | nmod:poss |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 tale | punct |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tale | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sad | cc |
| 8 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 long | conj |
| 9 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 begins | obj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 tale | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 staring | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 staring | cc |
| 13 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 staring | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 staring | aux |
| 15 | staring | stare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 begins | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 tail | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 tail | nmod:poss |
| 18 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tail | amod |
| 19 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 staring | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 mixes | punct |
| 21 | mixes | mix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 staring | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 mixes | compound:prt |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 words | det |
| 24 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 mixes | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 hears | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 hears | cc |
| 27 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 hears | advmod |
| 28 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 begins | conj |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 not | punct |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 hears | obj |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 not | punct |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 34 knot | case |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 knot | punct |
| 34 | knot | knot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hears | obl |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 knot | punct |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 stomps | punct |
| 37 | so | so | ADV | _ | 40 stomps | advmod |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Mouse | det |
| 39 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 stomps | nsubj |
| 40 | stomps | stomp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 begins | conj |
| 41 | off | off | ADP | _ | 40 stomps | compound:prt |
| 42 | insulted | insult | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 stomps | xcomp |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 begins | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | present | the Mouse | prize's long tale | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | stare | present · progressive | Alice | at prize's long tail | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tail=Theme | ||||
| 3 | mix up | present | Alice not said here | the words | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | ||||
| 4 | hear | present | the Mouse not said here | then | as knot | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer not=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | stomp off | present | the Mouse | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | insult | participle | the Mouse not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | tell in a quote | prize | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:006-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale.lesson:2.
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 ×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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