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title: I shall be late!» and «Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it's gettin… — Off with her head and the finest house on the ri… · tree and pragmatics
description: I shall be late!» and «Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it's getting!»; he is a funny, exaggerated worrier. Who acts: I, ears, Mole. A sentence of the lesson «Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre
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# Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad, sentence 13

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I shall be late!» and «Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it's getting!»; he is a funny, exaggerated worrier.

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**Who acts:** I, ears, Mole · **What happens:** be, get · **To what, where:** funny exaggerated worrier · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad» of the language 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 (I, ears, Mole), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:054-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad.lesson:13
# text = I shall be late!» and «Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it's getting!»; he is a funny, exaggerated worrier.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 054-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
9	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
16	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
21	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	exaggerated	exaggerated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	worrier	worrier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | shall | I |  |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | present · progressive | my ears and whiskers |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Mole | a funny exaggerated worrier |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:language:054-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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