--- title: When Alice promises not to talk about cats or dogs, the Mouse comes… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Poo… · tree and pragmatics description: When Alice promises not to talk about cats or dogs, the Mouse comes back, its face "quite pale (with passion, Alice thought)", and says it will tell its "history" on the shore. Who acts: Alice, Mouse, face. 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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, Mouse, face), 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:19 # text = When Alice promises not to talk about cats or dogs, the Mouse comes back, its face "quite pale (with passion, Alice thought)", and says it will tell its "history" on the shore. # 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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 promises promise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 7 about about ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Mouse mouse PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 14 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 15 back back ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:parataxis 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 20 quite quite ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:advmod|HaikuPos=DET:PDT:PronType=Ind 21 pale pale ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 22 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 23 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 passion passion NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:obl 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 26 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 28 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 ccomp _ _ 36 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 " " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ _ 38 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **talk** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | | | | | about cats or dogs | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about cat=Topic | | 3 | **come back** | present | the Mouse | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | Alice | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | future | face | face's history | | the shore | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent history=Recipient | 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: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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/4-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears/18/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/4-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/4-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears/)