--- title: Dinah is Alice's cat; Alice hoped someone would remember Dinah's sau… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the… · tree and pragmatics description: Dinah is Alice's cat; Alice hoped someone would remember Dinah's saucer of milk at tea-time, and said there were no mice in the air, but Dinah might catch a bat, which is "very like a mouse". Who acts: Dinah, Alice, someone, mice. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dinah, Alice, someone, mice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:001-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole.lesson:19 # text = Dinah is Alice's cat; Alice hoped someone would remember Dinah's saucer of milk at tea-time, and said there were no mice in the air, but Dinah might catch a bat, which is "very like a mouse". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 001-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole.lesson # annotation = 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 ×1 1 Dinah Dinah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 hoped hope VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 9 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 11 nsubj _ _ 10 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 12 Dinah Dinah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 saucer saucer NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 20 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 24 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 25 expl _ _ 25 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 26 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 27 det _ _ 27 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 Dinah Dinah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 34 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 bat bat NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 39 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ _ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 41 " " PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ _ 42 very very ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 acl:relcl _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 45 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=43:punct 47 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Dinah | Alice's cat | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **hope** | past | Alice | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **remember** | would | someone | Dinah's saucer of milk | | | time | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent saucer=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **be** | past | no mice in the air | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **catch** | might | Dinah | a bat | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bat=Theme | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | a bat | | | | | a mouse *obl*; like *property* | tree rules | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:001-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole.lesson:19`. **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 ×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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