Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig and the Cheshire Cat, sentence 1
But the baby keeps grunting, its nose turns into a snout and its eyes get tiny, until it is quite plainly a pig, so Alice puts it down and it trots off happily into the wood.
Who acts: baby, nose, eyes, Alice · What happens: keep, grunt, turn, get, be, put down · To what, where: snout, pig, baby, wood
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 (baby, nose, eyes, Alice), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 keeps | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 baby | det |
| 3 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keeps | nsubj |
| 4 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | grunting | grunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 keeps | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 turns | punct |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 nose | nmod:poss |
| 8 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turns | nsubj |
| 9 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 keeps | conj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 snout | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 snout | det |
| 12 | snout | snout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turns | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 get | cc |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 get | nsubj |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 turns | conj |
| 17 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 get | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 pig | punct |
| 19 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 25 pig | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 pig | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 pig | cop |
| 22 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 23 plainly | advmod |
| 23 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 25 pig | advmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 pig | det |
| 25 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keeps | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 puts | punct |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 puts | advmod |
| 28 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 puts | nsubj |
| 29 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 keeps | parataxis |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 puts | obj |
| 31 | down | down | ADP | _ | 29 puts | compound:prt |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 trots | cc |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 trots | nsubj |
| 34 | trots | trot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 puts | conj |
| 35 | off | off | ADP | _ | 34 trots | compound:prt |
| 36 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 34 trots | advmod |
| 37 | into | into | ADP | _ | 39 wood | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 wood | det |
| 39 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 trots | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | the baby | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | grunt | gerund | the baby not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | turn | present | baby's nose | a snout | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into snout=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | get | present | baby's eyes | tiny property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | baby | a pig | plainly property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | put down | present | Alice | baby | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | ||||
| 7 | trot off | present | baby | the wood | happily property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wood=Destination |
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:1.
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 ×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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