Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig and the Cheshire Cat, sentence 0
The Duchess flings the baby at Alice and rushes off to get ready for croquet with the Queen; Alice carries the squirming, star-fish-shaped baby outside, afraid that in that house they would kill it.
Who acts: Duchess, Alice, they · What happens: fling, rush off, get, carry, squirm, shape · To what, where: baby, Alice, squirming fish shaped baby, house
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig and the Cheshire Cat» 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, Alice, they), 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 | 3 flings | nsubj |
| 3 | flings | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 baby | det |
| 5 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flings | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 Alice | case |
| 7 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 flings | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rushes | cc |
| 9 | rushes | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 flings | conj |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 rushes | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 get | mark |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 rushes | advcl |
| 13 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 get | xcomp |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 croquet | case |
| 15 | croquet | croquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ready | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 Queen | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Queen | det |
| 18 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 croquet | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 carries | punct |
| 20 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 carries | nsubj |
| 21 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 flings | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 baby | det |
| 23 | squirming | squirm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 baby | amod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 baby | punct |
| 25 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fish | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 fish | punct |
| 27 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 baby | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 fish | punct |
| 29 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 baby | amod |
| 30 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 carries | obj |
| 31 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 21 carries | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 afraid | punct |
| 33 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 carries | advcl |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 kill | mark |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 house | case |
| 36 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 house | det |
| 37 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 kill | obl |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 kill | nsubj |
| 39 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 kill | aux |
| 40 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 afraid | ccomp |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 kill | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flings | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fling | present | the Duchess | the baby | Alice | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent baby=Theme at alice=Destination | |||
| 2 | rush off | present | the Duchess not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | the Duchess not said here | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | carry | present | Alice | the squirming fish shaped baby | outside property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme | |||
| 5 | squirm | gerund | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | shape | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 7 | kill | would | they | baby | that house | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:012-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat.lesson:0.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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