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title: Left alone, she cries again, until she hears little footsteps and ho… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes… · tree and pragmatics
description: Left alone, she cries again, until she hears little footsteps and hopes the Mouse is coming back: a funny part with a sad ending, about not always noticing how your words land. Who acts: Alice, Mouse, words, your. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tal
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again, sentence 4

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Left alone, she cries again, until she hears little footsteps and hopes the Mouse is coming back: a funny part with a sad ending, about not always noticing how your words land.

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**Who acts:** Alice, Mouse, words, your · **What happens:** leave, cry, hear, hope, come back, not notice · **To what, where:** little footsteps, funny part · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Mouse, words, your), 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:4
# text = Left alone, she cries again, until she hears little footsteps and hopes the Mouse is coming back: a funny part with a sad ending, about not always noticing how your words land.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
2	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	cries	cry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	hopes	hope	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Mouse	mouse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	ccomp	_	_
19	back	back	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	ending	ending	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
31	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	32	advmod	_	_
32	noticing	notice	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
33	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	36	advmod	_	_
34	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:compound
36	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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 | **leave** | participle | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | Alice |  |  |  | again |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hear** | present | Alice | little footsteps |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer footstep=Stimulus |
| 4 | **hope** | present | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **come back** | present · progressive | the Mouse | a funny part with a sad ending |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **notice** | gerund | the Mouse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **land** |  | your words |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **word** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:4`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/).

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