--- title: The Duchess's lullaby says "Speak roughly to your little boy, And be… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The foo… · tree and pragmatics description: The Duchess's lullaby says "Speak roughly to your little boy, And beat him when he sneezes: He only does it to annoy, Because he knows it teases"; it is a silly, shocking twist of a gentle old poem, and hitting children is cruel and wrong. Who acts: lullaby, Talking, hitting. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lullaby, Talking, hitting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:011-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper.lesson:25 # text = The Duchess's lullaby says "Speak roughly to your little boy, And beat him when he sneezes: He only does it to annoy, Because he knows it teases"; it is a silly, shocking twist of a gentle old poem, and hitting children is cruel and wrong. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 011-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper.lesson # annotation = 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 ×2, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Duchess Duchess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 lullaby lullaby NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 Speak speak VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 8 roughly roughly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod 9 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nmod 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 And and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 beat beat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 when when SCONJ WRB _ 19 mark _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 sneezes sneeze VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 20 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 21 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 only only ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:conj 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:nsubj 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 annoy annoy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 Because because SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:conj 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 teases tease VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 ccomp _ _ 33 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 38 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 shocking shocking ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 twist twist NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:ccomp 42 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 44 gentle gentle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 45 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 poem poem NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ 47 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=49:punct 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=41:cc 49 hitting hit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 52 csubj _ _ 50 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 obj _ _ 51 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 52 cop _ _ 52 cruel cruel ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 conj _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=52:cc 54 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 conj _ _ 55 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Duchess's lullaby | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | to your little boy; roughly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to boy=Co-Agent | | 3 | **beat** *in a quote* | infinitive | | lullaby | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | | 4 | **sneeze** *in a quote* | present | lullaby | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **do** *in a quote* | present | lullaby | Talking | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **annoy** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | lullaby *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **know** *in a quote* | present | lullaby | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 8 | **tease** *in a quote* | present | Talking | | | | | | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **is a** | present | Talking | a silly shocking twist | | | | of a gentle old poem | tree rules | | 10 | **hit** | gerund | | children | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme child=Co-Theme | | 11 | **is** | present | hitting | | | | | cruel *property* | tree rules | | 12 | **be** | | hitting *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:011-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper.lesson:25`. **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 ×2, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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