--- title: She says "Où est ma chatte?", the first sentence in her French book,… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Poo… · tree and pragmatics description: She says "Où est ma chatte?", the first sentence in her French book, which means "Where is my cat?"; the Mouse leaps out of the water in fright. Who acts: Alice, first sentence, Mouse. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse» of the books co --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/4-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/4-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears/) / 15 # Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse, sentence 15 She says "Où est ma chatte?", the first sentence in her French book, which means "Where is my cat?"; the Mouse leaps out of the water in fright. **Who acts:** Alice, first sentence, Mouse · **What happens:** say, mean, be, leap out · **To what, where:** cat, water, fright · **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, first sentence, Mouse), 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:15 # text = She says "Où est ma chatte?", the first sentence in her French book, which means "Where is my cat?"; the Mouse leaps out of the water in fright. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:":_ 4 Où Où PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 5 est est NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 ma ma NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 chatte chatte NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ _ 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 13 amod _ _ 13 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:advcl:relcl 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 22 Where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 25 advmod _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 26 ? ? PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Mouse mouse PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 31 leaps leap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 32 out out ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 fright fright NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mean** | present | the first sentence in Alice's French book | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | my cat | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **leap out** | present | the Mouse | the water | | fright | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Trajectory | 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:15`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/4-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears/14/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/4-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/4-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears/)