--- title: The Mouse begins its "long and sad tale", but Alice is staring at it… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes… · tree and pragmatics description: The Mouse begins its "long and sad tale", but Alice is staring at its long tail, mixes up the words, and then hears "not" as "knot", so the Mouse stomps off insulted. Who acts: Mouse, Alice, prize. 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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, prize), 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:2 # text = The Mouse begins its "long and sad tale", but Alice is staring at its long tail, mixes up the words, and then hears "not" as "knot", so the Mouse stomps off insulted. # 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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 begins begin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 6 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 9 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 staring stare VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 mixes mix VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ _ 28 hears hear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 obj _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 32 as as ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 34 knot knot NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 so so ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 Mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 stomps stomp VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 41 off off ADP RP _ 40 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=42:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 42 insulted insult VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 xcomp _ _ 43 . . 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 | **begin** | present | the Mouse | prize's long tale | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Eventuality | | 2 | **stare** | present · progressive | Alice | | | | | at prize's long tail | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tail=Theme | | 3 | **mix up** | present | Alice *not said here* | the words | | | | | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 4 | **hear** | present | the Mouse *not said here* | | | | then | as knot | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer not=Stimulus | | 5 | **stomp off** | present | the Mouse | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **insult** | participle | the Mouse *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **tell** *in a quote* | | prize | | | | | | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:2`. **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. **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…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/6-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale/1/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/6-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/6-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale/)