Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig and the Cheshire Cat, sentence 6

The baby holds out its arms and legs "just like a star-fish", is "snorting like a steam-engine", and keeps doubling up and straightening out.

Who acts: baby · What happens: hold out, snort, keep, double up, straighten out · To what, where: arms · 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 (baby), 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 baby	det
2	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 holds	nsubj
3	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 holds	compound:prt
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 arms	nmod:poss
6	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 holds	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 legs	cc
8	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 arms	conj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 arms	punct
10	just	just	ADV	_	15 fish	advmod
11	like	like	ADP	_	15 fish	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 fish	det
13	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fish	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 star	punct
15	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 holds	parataxis
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 fish	punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 snorting	punct
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 snorting	aux
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 snorting	punct
20	snorting	snort	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 holds	parataxis
21	like	like	ADP	_	25 engine	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 engine	det
23	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 engine	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 steam	punct
25	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 snorting	obl
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 snorting	punct
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 keeps	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 keeps	cc
29	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 holds	conj
30	doubling	double	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 keeps	xcomp
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 doubling	compound:prt
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 straightening	cc
33	straightening	straighten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 doubling	conj
34	out	out	ADP	_	33 straightening	compound:prt
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 holds	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hold out	present	the baby	baby's arms and legs		tree rules
2	snort in a quote	present · progressive			like a steam engine	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	keep	present	the baby not said here			tree rules
4	double up	gerund	the baby not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	straighten out	gerund	the baby not said here			vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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:6.

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): no change. 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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