Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig and the Cheshire Cat, sentence 9

The baby grunts, and Alice tells it "Don't grunt, that's not at all a proper way of expressing yourself."

Who acts: baby, Alice, that, proper way · What happens: grunt, tell, not grunt, not be, express · To what, where: baby, proper way · 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, Alice, that, 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	2 baby	det
2	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grunts	nsubj
3	grunts	grunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tells	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tells	cc
6	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tells	nsubj
7	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grunts	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tells	obj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 grunt	punct
10	Do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 grunt	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 grunt	advmod
12	grunt	grunt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 tells	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 way	punct
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 way	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 way	cop
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 way	advmod
17	at	at	ADP	_	21 way	advmod
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 at	fixed
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 way	det
20	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 way	amod
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grunt	parataxis
22	of	of	SCONJ	_	23 expressing	mark
23	expressing	express	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 way	acl
24	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 expressing	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 grunt	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 grunt	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	grunt	present	the baby			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	present	Alice		baby	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not grunt in a quote	infinitive · do-support				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not is a in a quote	present	that	a proper way		tree rules
5	express in a quote	gerund	a proper way not said here	baby		vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme

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:9.

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): R7-rel-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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