---
title: She calls it "a narrow escape", meaning a near miss with danger. — Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Poo… · tree and pragmatics
description: She calls it "a narrow escape", meaning a near miss with danger. Who acts: Alice. 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 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[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/7/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / 7

# Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse, sentence 7

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
She calls it "a narrow escape", meaning a near miss with danger.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Alice · **What happens:** call, mean · **To what, where:** fan, near miss · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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), 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:7
# text = She calls it "a narrow escape", meaning a near miss with danger.
# 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): no change
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	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	escape	escape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	near	near	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	miss	miss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | Alice | fan |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | a near miss |  |  |  | with danger | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miss=Topic |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:7`.

**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): no change. **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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/4-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears/6/)
- next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/4-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears/8/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/4-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears/)