--- title: In the tale a dog called Fury says to a mouse, "I'll be judge, I'll… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes… · tree and pragmatics description: In the tale a dog called Fury says to a mouse, "I'll be judge, I'll be jury", which means one side would decide everything, a very unfair trial; a "cur" is a bad-tempered dog and "prosecute" means take someone to court. Who acts: dog, judge, one side, cur. 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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 (dog, judge, one side, cur), 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:13 # text = In the tale a dog called Fury says to a mouse, "I'll be judge, I'll be jury", which means one side would decide everything, a very unfair trial; a "cur" is a bad-tempered dog and "prosecute" means take someone to court. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 Fury Fury PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 xcomp _ _ 8 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obl 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 cop _ _ 17 judge judge NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 ccomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 cop _ _ 22 jury jury NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:appos 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl:relcl _ _ 27 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 decide decide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 ccomp _ _ 31 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 30 obj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 34 very very ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 unfair unfair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 trial trial NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 37 ; ; PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 " " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ _ 40 cur cur NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ _ 42 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 cop _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 44 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 compound _ _ 45 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 44 punct _ _ 46 tempered temper VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 47 amod _ _ 47 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 49 " " PUNCT `` _ 50 punct _ _ 50 prosecute prosecute VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 52 nsubj _ _ 51 " " PUNCT '' _ 50 punct _ _ 52 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 conj _ _ 53 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 52 ccomp _ _ 54 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 53 obj _ _ 55 to to ADP IN _ 56 case _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=56:case|HaikuPos=ADP:TO:_ 56 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 obl _ _ 57 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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** | participle | | a dog *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a dog | | a mouse | the tale | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mouse=Recipient | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | future | a dog *= dog* | judge and a unfair trial | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | future | a dog *= dog* | jury | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **mean** | present | judge and a unfair trial | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **decide** | would | one side | everything | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent everything=Topic | | 7 | **temper** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **is a** | present | a cur | a tempered dog | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **prosecute** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 11 | **take** | infinitive | | someone | | court | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent someone=Theme to court=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:006-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale.lesson:13`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/6-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale/12/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/6-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/6-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale/)