--- title: Every time she tries to make friends she makes it worse, chatting ha… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Poo… · tree and pragmatics description: Every time she tries to make friends she makes it worse, chatting happily about her cat Dinah and a rat-killing dog, until the Mouse swims away offended. Who acts: Alice, Mouse. 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](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/3/) [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/) / 3 # Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse, sentence 3 Every time she tries to make friends she makes it worse, chatting happily about her cat Dinah and a rat-killing dog, until the Mouse swims away offended. **Who acts:** Alice, Mouse · **What happens:** try, make, chat, kill, swim away · **To what, where:** friends, sentence 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, 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:3 # text = Every time she tries to make friends she makes it worse, chatting happily about her cat Dinah and a rat-killing dog, until the Mouse swims away offended. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 tries try VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 xcomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 chatting chat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advcl 14 happily happily ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 about about ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 Dinah Dinah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 appos _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 21 rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 23 killing kill VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 24 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 until until SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Mouse mouse PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 29 swims swim VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 30 away away ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 offended offended ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | present | Alice | | | | time | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | friends | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product | | 3 | **make** | present | Alice | sentence | | | | bad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | | 4 | **chat** *speech: other* | gerund | Alice *not said here* | | | | | about Alice's cat and a killing dog; happily *property* | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about cat=Topic | | 5 | **kill** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **swim away** | present | the Mouse | | | | | away, offended *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:3`. **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, 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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