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title: Alice whispers "C and D" for cats and dogs, so as not to upset the M… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes… · tree and pragmatics
description: Alice whispers "C and D" for cats and dogs, so as not to upset the Mouse. Who acts: Alice. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again, sentence 11

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Alice whispers "C and D" for cats and dogs, so as not to upset the Mouse.

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**Who acts:** Alice · **What happens:** whisper, not upset · **To what, where:** C, Mouse

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again» 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:006-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale.lesson:11
# text = Alice whispers "C and D" for cats and dogs, so as not to upset the Mouse.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 006-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	whispers	whisper	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	C	C	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	D	D	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	upset	upset	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | present | Alice | C and D |  |  |  | for cats and dogs | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent c=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **upset** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | the Mouse |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mouse=Experiencer |

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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.

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**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:006-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale.lesson:11`.

**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): R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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