--- title: At first she thinks the splashing creature is a walrus or hippopotam… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Poo… · tree and pragmatics description: At first she thinks the splashing creature is a walrus or hippopotamus, but, being so small, she sees it is only a mouse. Who acts: Alice, splashing creature, creature. 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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 (Alice, splashing creature, creature), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:004-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears.lesson:12 # text = At first she thinks the splashing creature is a walrus or hippopotamus, but, being so small, she sees it is only a mouse. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 004-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears.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): no change 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 4 obl _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 splashing splash VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 amod _ _ 7 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 walrus walrus NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 ccomp _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 hippopotamus hippopotamus NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 cop _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 advcl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 24 only only ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 ccomp _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **splash** | gerund | | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | the splashing creature | a walrus or hippopotamus | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | | | | | small *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **see** | present | Alice | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **is a** | present | creature | a mouse | | | | | 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:004-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears.lesson:12`. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/4-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears/11/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/4-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/4-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears/)