--- title: She calls it back kindly, it promises to tell her why it hates cats… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Poo… · tree and pragmatics description: She calls it back kindly, it promises to tell her why it hates cats and dogs, and Alice leads a crowd of soggy birds and animals to the shore: a funny, slightly awkward scene about putting your foot in it. Who acts: mouse, sentence, Alice, funny awkward scene. 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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, sentence, Alice, funny awkward scene), 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:4 # text = She calls it back kindly, it promises to tell her why it hates cats and dogs, and Alice leads a crowd of soggy birds and animals to the shore: a funny, slightly awkward scene about putting your foot in it. # 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 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 back back ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 5 kindly kindly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 promises promise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 iobj _ _ 12 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 hates hate VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ _ 15 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 leads lead VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 crowd crowd NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 soggy soggy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nmod 32 : : PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 34 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 slightly slightly ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 awkward awkward ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 scene scene NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 39 about about SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 40 putting put VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 38 acl _ _ 41 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ _ 45 . . 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 | **call back** *speech: assert* | present | mouse | sentence | | | | kindly *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | | 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present | sentence | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | sentence *not said here* | | mouse | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **hate** | present | sentence | cats and dogs | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus | | 5 | **lead** | present | Alice | a crowd of soggy birds and animals | | the shore | | a funny awkward scene *obl* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent crowd=Theme to shore=Destination | | 6 | **put** | gerund | a funny awkward scene *not said here* | your foot | | sentence | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme in it=Destination | 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:4`. **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. **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…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/4-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears/3/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/4-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/4-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears/)