Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen, sentence 5

Then the Duchess sings the baby a horrible lullaby about beating a boy when he sneezes, shaking him at every line: noisy, rude and crazy, a kitchen where nobody behaves the way grown-ups should.

Who acts: Duchess, horrible lullaby, boy, nobody · What happens: sing, beat, sneeze, shake, behave, grow · To what, where: baby, boy, line, way

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 (Duchess, horrible lullaby, boy, nobody), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sings	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Duchess	det
3	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sings	nsubj
4	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 baby	det
6	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sings	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lullaby	det
8	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lullaby	amod
9	lullaby	lullaby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sings	obj
10	about	about	SCONJ	_	11 beating	mark
11	beating	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 lullaby	acl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 boy	det
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 beating	obj
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	16 sneezes	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sneezes	nsubj
16	sneezes	sneeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 beating	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shaking	punct
18	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 sneezes	advcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 shaking	obj
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 line	case
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 line	det
22	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shaking	obl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 noisy	punct
24	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 line	amod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 rude	punct
26	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 noisy	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 crazy	cc
28	crazy	crazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 noisy	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 kitchen	punct
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 kitchen	det
31	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 noisy	conj
32	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 behaves	advmod
33	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	34 behaves	nsubj
34	behaves	behave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 kitchen	acl:relcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 way	det
36	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 behaves	obj
37	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 ups	amod
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 ups	punct
39	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 should	nsubj
40	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 way	acl:relcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sings	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	the Duchess	the baby		then	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent baby=Beneficiary lullaby=Theme
2	beat	gerund	a horrible lullaby not said here	a boy			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boy=Theme
3	sneeze	present	boy				vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	shake	gerund	boy not said here	boy	every line		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme at line=Trajectory
5	behave	present	nobody	the way			tree rules
6	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «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, 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:5.

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 ×3, 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.

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