Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig and the Cheshire Cat, sentence 5

The Duchess says "Here! you may nurse it a bit, if you like!", flinging the baby at Alice, and goes to get ready to play croquet with the Queen; the cook throws a frying-pan after her but misses.

Who acts: Duchess, you, cook · What happens: say, nurse, like, fling, go, get · To what, where: house, baby, Alice, croquet, frying pan · 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 (Duchess, you, cook), 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 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 nurse	punct
5	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 nurse	advmod
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 Here	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 nurse	nsubj
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 nurse	aux
9	nurse	nurse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 nurse	obj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bit	det
12	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nurse	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 like	punct
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 like	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 like	nsubj
16	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 nurse	advcl
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 like	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 like	punct
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 flinging	punct
20	flinging	fling	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 nurse	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 baby	det
22	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 flinging	obj
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 Alice	case
24	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 flinging	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 goes	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 goes	cc
27	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 get	mark
29	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 goes	xcomp
30	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 get	xcomp
31	to	to	PART	_	32 play	mark
32	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 ready	xcomp
33	croquet	croquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 play	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 Queen	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Queen	det
36	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 play	obl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 throws	punct
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 cook	det
39	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 throws	nsubj
40	throws	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	conj
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 pan	det
42	frying	frying	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 pan	compound
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 frying	punct
44	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 throws	obj
45	after	after	ADP	_	46 her	case
46	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 throws	obl
47	but	but	CCONJ	_	48 misses	cc
48	misses	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 throws	conj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	present	the Duchess					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	nurse in a quote	may	you	house	here		a bit obl:unmarked	vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary
3	like a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	fling	gerund	you not said here	the baby	Alice			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent baby=Theme at alice=Destination
5	go	present	the Duchess not said here					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	get	to-infinitive	the Duchess not said here				ready property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
7	play	to-infinitive	the Duchess not said here	croquet			with the Queen	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent croquet=Theme with queen=Co-Agent
8	throw	present	the cook	a frying pan		after Alice		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pan=Theme
9	miss	present	the cook not said here					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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: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): R1-cc-next ×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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