--- title: The Mouse cries, "Would you like cats if you were me?" and calls cat… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Poo… · tree and pragmatics description: The Mouse cries, "Would you like cats if you were me?" and calls cats "nasty, low, vulgar things"; "vulgar" here means common and rude. Who acts: Mouse, cries, you, cats. 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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 (Mouse, cries, you, cats), 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:16 # text = The Mouse cries, "Would you like cats if you were me?" and calls cats "nasty, low, vulgar things"; "vulgar" here means common and rude. # 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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det 2 Mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound 3 cries cry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 6 Would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 if if SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 advcl _ _ 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 18 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 20 nasty nasty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 vulgar vulgar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 29 vulgar vulgar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 31 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 32 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 33 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 xcomp _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, indirect=0, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | | the Mouse | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **like** *in a quote* | would | cries | cats | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cat=Theme | | 3 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | you | the Mouse *= mouse* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **call** | present | cats | nasty low vulgar things | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **mean** | present | vulgar | | | | | common *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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](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:16`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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