--- title: Then the Duchess sings the baby a horrible lullaby about beating a b… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The foo… · tree and pragmatics description: Then the Duchess sings the baby a horrible lullaby about beating a boy when he sneezes, shaking him at every line: noisy, rude and crazy, a kitchen where nobody behaves the way grown-ups should. Who acts: Duchess, horrible lullaby, boy, nobody. 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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 (Duchess, horrible lullaby, boy, nobody), 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:5 # text = Then the Duchess sings the baby a horrible lullaby about beating a boy when he sneezes, shaking him at every line: noisy, rude and crazy, a kitchen where nobody behaves the way grown-ups should. # 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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Duchess Duchess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 sings sing VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 horrible horrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 lullaby lullaby NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 10 about about SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 11 beating beat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 when when SCONJ WRB _ 16 mark _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 sneezes sneeze VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 shaking shake VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 22 det _ _ 22 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 24 noisy noisy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 crazy crazy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 32 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 34 advmod _ _ 33 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 34 nsubj _ _ 34 behaves behave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:acl 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ _ 39 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:obj 40 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:ccomp 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | the Duchess | the baby | | | then | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent baby=Beneficiary lullaby=Theme | | 2 | **beat** | gerund | a horrible lullaby *not said here* | a boy | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boy=Theme | | 3 | **sneeze** | present | boy | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **shake** | gerund | boy *not said here* | boy | | every line | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme at line=Trajectory | | 5 | **behave** | present | nobody | the way | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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](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: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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/11-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper/3/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/11-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/11-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper/)