--- title: The Mouse is "a person of authority among them", meaning someone the… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The dr… · tree and pragmatics description: The Mouse is "a person of authority among them", meaning someone the others obey; they all sit "in a large ring, with the Mouse in the middle", and Alice watches it anxiously, sure she will "catch a bad cold" if she does not get dry soon. Who acts: Mouse, others, Alice, argument. 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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, others, Alice, argument), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:005-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race.lesson:8 # text = The Mouse is "a person of authority among them", meaning someone the others obey; they all sit "in a large ring, with the Mouse in the middle", and Alice watches it anxiously, sure she will "catch a bad cold" if she does not get dry soon. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 005-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 authority authority NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 among among ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nmod _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 meaning mean VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:acl 14 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 13 obj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 obey obey VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 21 det _ _ 21 sit sit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 23 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 watches watch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 anxiously anxiously ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=42:advmod 41 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 42 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:parataxis 43 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 44 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 45 " " PUNCT `` _ 46 punct _ _ 46 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 ccomp _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 48 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 cold cold NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ _ 50 " " PUNCT '' _ 55 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=55:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 51 if if SCONJ IN _ 55 mark _ _ 52 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 55 nsubj _ _ 53 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 55 aux _ _ 54 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 55 advmod _ _ 55 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 advcl _ _ 56 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 xcomp _ _ 57 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 55 advmod _ _ 58 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the Mouse | a person | | | | of authority among Alice | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | gerund | the Mouse *not said here* | someone | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Topic | | 3 | **obey** | present | the others | | | | | | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **sit** | present | others *= other* | | | a large ring | | with the Mouse in the middle | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in ring=Location | | 5 | **watch** | present | Alice | Mouse | | | | anxiously *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 6 | **catch** *in a quote* | future | argument | a bad cold | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme | | 7 | **not** **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | argument | | | | | dry, soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:005-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race.lesson:8`. **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 ×2, 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 III, part…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/5-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race/7/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/5-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/5-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race/)