--- title: But the baby keeps grunting, its nose turns into a snout and its eye… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The bab… · tree and pragmatics description: But the baby keeps grunting, its nose turns into a snout and its eyes get tiny, until it is quite plainly a pig, so Alice puts it down and it trots off happily into the wood. Who acts: baby, nose, eyes, Alice. 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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 (baby, nose, eyes, Alice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:012-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat.lesson:1 # text = But the baby keeps grunting, its nose turns into a snout and its eyes get tiny, until it is quite plainly a pig, so Alice puts it down and it trots off happily into the wood. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 012-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 grunting grunt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 xcomp _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 7 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 snout snout NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 until until SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 22 quite quite ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 plainly plainly ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 advcl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 28 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 puts put VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 down down ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 trots trot VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 35 off off ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 36 happily happily ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 37 into into ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | present | the baby | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **grunt** | gerund | the baby *not said here* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **turn** | present | baby's nose | | | a snout | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into snout=Trajectory | | 4 | **get** | present | baby's eyes | | | | | tiny *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is a** | present | baby | a pig | | | | plainly *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **put down** | present | Alice | baby | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | | 7 | **trot off** | present | baby | | | the wood | | happily *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wood=Destination | 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:012-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat.lesson:1`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/12-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat/0/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/12-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/12-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat/)