--- title: The Mouse says "Mine is a long and a sad tale!" and Alice answers "I… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes… · tree and pragmatics description: The Mouse says "Mine is a long and a sad tale!" and Alice answers "It is a long tail, certainly", mixing up tale (story) and tail. Who acts: Mouse, Alice, tale. 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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, Alice, tale), 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:12 # text = The Mouse says "Mine is a long and a sad tale!" and Alice answers "It is a long tail, certainly", mixing up tale (story) and tail. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 5 Mine mine PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 13 ! ! PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 answers answer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 19 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 ccomp _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 certainly certainly ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 28 mixing mix VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 advcl _ _ 29 up up ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 32 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:conj 33 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: express* | present | the Mouse | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Mouse *= mouse* | | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | tale | a long tail | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **mix up** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | tale and tail | | | | | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Patient | 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. 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