--- title: The Duchess says "Here! you may nurse it a bit, if you like!", fling… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The bab… · tree and pragmatics description: The Duchess says "Here! you may nurse it a bit, if you like!", flinging the baby at Alice, and goes to get ready to play croquet with the Queen; the cook throws a frying-pan after her but misses. Who acts: Duchess, you, cook. 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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, you, cook), 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:5 # text = The Duchess says "Here! you may nurse it a bit, if you like!", flinging the baby at Alice, and goes to get ready to play croquet with the Queen; the cook throws a frying-pan after her but misses. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Duchess Duchess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 5 Here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 advmod _ _ 6 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 nurse nurse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 if if SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 17 ! ! PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 flinging fling VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 croquet croquet NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 ; ; PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 cook cook NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 throws throw VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 42 frying frying NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 43 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 42 punct _ _ 44 pan pan NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 45 after after ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ _ 47 but but CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=40:cc 48 misses miss VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 conj _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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: express* | present | the Duchess | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **nurse** *in a quote* | may | you | house | | here | | a bit *obl:unmarked* | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary | | 3 | **like** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **fling** | gerund | you *not said here* | the baby | | Alice | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent baby=Theme at alice=Destination | | 5 | **go** | present | the Duchess *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **get** | to-infinitive | the Duchess *not said here* | | | | | ready *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **play** | to-infinitive | the Duchess *not said here* | croquet | | | | with the Queen | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent croquet=Theme with queen=Co-Agent | | 8 | **throw** | present | the cook | a frying pan | | | after Alice | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pan=Theme | | 9 | **miss** | present | the cook *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | 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: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): R1-cc-next ×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…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/12-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat/4/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/12-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/12-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat/)