--- title: Feeling lonely, Alice wishes her cat Dinah were there and proudly sa… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes… · tree and pragmatics description: Feeling lonely, Alice wishes her cat Dinah were there and proudly says Dinah eats little birds, and at once every bird finds an excuse to hurry home. Who acts: Alice, cat, Dinah, bird. 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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 (Alice, cat, Dinah, bird), 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:3 # text = Feeling lonely, Alice wishes her cat Dinah were there and proudly says Dinah eats little birds, and at once every bird finds an excuse to hurry home. # 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): no change 1 Feeling feel VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 2 lonely lonely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 xcomp _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 4 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 wishes wish VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 8 Dinah Dinah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 9 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 ccomp _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 proudly proudly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 14 Dinah Dinah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 16 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 20 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 once once ADV RB _ 24 obl _ _ 22 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 23 det _ _ 23 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 25 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 excuse excuse NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 hurry hurry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 acl _ _ 29 home home ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | | | | | lonely *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **wish** | present | Alice | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **is** | past | Alice's cat | | | | | there *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Alice *not said here* | | | | | proudly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **eat** | present | Dinah | little birds | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient | | 6 | **find** | present | every bird | a excuse | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent excuse=Theme at once=Asset | | 7 | **hurry** | to-infinitive | every bird *not said here* | a excuse *not said here* | | | | home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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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