Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig and the Cheshire Cat, sentence 7

The "proper way of nursing it" is to twist it into a sort of knot and hold tight to its right ear and left foot.

Who acts: proper way · What happens: nurse, be, hold, sort · To what, where: way, sort, knot

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 (proper way), 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	4 way	det
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 way	punct
3	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 way	amod
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 twist	nsubj
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 nursing	mark
6	nursing	nurse	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 way	acl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 nursing	obj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 nursing	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 twist	cop
10	to	to	PART	_	11 twist	mark
11	twist	twist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 twist	obj
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 sort	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 sort	det
15	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 twist	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 knot	case
17	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sort	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 hold	cc
19	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 twist	conj
20	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hold	xcomp
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 ear	case
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 ear	nmod:poss
23	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 ear	amod
24	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hold	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 foot	cc
26	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 foot	amod
27	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ear	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 twist	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	nurse in a quote	gerund	the proper way not said here	way			vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary
2	is	present	the proper way		a sort of knot	twist property	tree rules
3	hold	infinitive	the proper way not said here			to baby's right ear and left foot; tight property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sort			knot			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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:7.

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, 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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