Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig and the Cheshire Cat, sentence 11

Alice sets the pig down and feels "quite relieved" to see it trot away into the wood; she says "If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think."

Who acts: Alice, pig · What happens: set down, feel, see, trot away, say, grow up · To what, where: pig, wood, ugly child, handsome pig · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Alice, pig), 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	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sets	nsubj
2	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pig	det
4	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sets	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	2 sets	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 feels	cc
7	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sets	conj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 relieved	punct
9	quite	quite	ADV	_	10 relieved	advmod
10	relieved	relieved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 feels	xcomp
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 relieved	punct
12	to	to	PART	_	13 see	mark
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 relieved	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 see	obj
15	trot	trot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 see	xcomp
16	away	away	ADV	_	15 trot	advmod
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 wood	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wood	det
19	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 trot	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 says	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 says	nsubj
22	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sets	parataxis
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 made	punct
24	If	if	SCONJ	_	27 grown	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 grown	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 grown	aux
27	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 made	advcl
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 grown	compound:prt
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 grown	punct
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 made	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 made	aux
32	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 made	aux
33	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 says	ccomp
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 child	det
35	dreadfully	dreadfully	ADV	_	36 ugly	advmod
36	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 child	amod
37	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 made	obj
38	:	:	PUNCT	_	41 makes	punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 makes	cc
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 makes	nsubj
41	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sets	parataxis
42	rather	rather	ADV	_	45 pig	advmod
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 pig	det
44	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 pig	amod
45	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 makes	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 think	punct
47	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 think	nsubj
48	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 makes	parataxis
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	41 makes	punct
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	41 makes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set down	present	Alice	the pig			tree rules
2	feel	present	Alice not said here			relieved property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	see	to-infinitive	Alice not said here	pig			tree rules
4	trot away	infinitive	pig not said here		the wood	away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wood=Destination
5	say speech: assert	present	Alice				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	grow up a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect	pig				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	make in a quote	would · perfect	pig	a ugly child			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material child=Product
8	make in a quote	present	pig	a handsome pig			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material pig=Product
9	think speech: other in a quote	present	Alice				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:11.

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 ×1, R6-punct-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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