Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen, sentence 25

The Duchess's lullaby says "Speak roughly to your little boy, And beat him when he sneezes: He only does it to annoy, Because he knows it teases"; it is a silly, shocking twist of a gentle old poem, and hitting children is cruel and wrong.

Who acts: lullaby, Talking, hitting · What happens: say, speak, beat, sneeze, do, annoy · To what, where: lullaby, Talking, silly shocking twist, children · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen» 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 (lullaby, Talking, hitting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Duchess	det
2	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lullaby	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Duchess	case
4	lullaby	lullaby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Speak	punct
7	Speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 says	ccomp
8	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	7 Speak	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 boy	case
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 boy	nmod:poss
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 boy	amod
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Speak	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 beat	punct
14	And	and	CCONJ	_	15 beat	cc
15	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 Speak	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 beat	obj
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	19 sneezes	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sneezes	nsubj
19	sneezes	sneeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 beat	advcl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 does	punct
21	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 does	nsubj
22	only	only	ADV	_	23 does	advmod
23	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 says	parataxis
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 does	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 annoy	mark
26	annoy	annoy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 does	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 knows	punct
28	Because	because	SCONJ	_	30 knows	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 knows	nsubj
30	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 does	advcl
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 teases	nsubj
32	teases	tease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 knows	ccomp
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 teases	punct
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 twist	nsubj
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 twist	cop
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 twist	det
38	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 twist	amod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 twist	punct
40	shocking	shocking	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 twist	amod
41	twist	twist	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	parataxis
42	of	of	ADP	_	46 poem	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 poem	det
44	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 poem	amod
45	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 poem	amod
46	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 twist	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 cruel	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 cruel	cc
49	hitting	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	52 cruel	csubj
50	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 hitting	obj
51	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 cruel	cop
52	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 twist	conj
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 wrong	cc
54	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 cruel	conj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the Duchess's lullaby			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	speak speech: other in a quote	infinitive			to your little boy; roughly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to boy=Co-Agent
3	beat in a quote	infinitive		lullaby		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme
4	sneeze in a quote	present	lullaby			vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	do in a quote	present	lullaby	Talking		tree rules
6	annoy in a quote	to-infinitive	lullaby not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	know in a quote	present	lullaby			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	tease in a quote	present	Talking			vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	is a	present	Talking	a silly shocking twist	of a gentle old poem	tree rules
10	hit	gerund		children		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme child=Co-Theme
11	is	present	hitting		cruel property	tree rules
12	be		hitting not said here			tree rules

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, 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:011-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper.lesson:25.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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.

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