--- title: The baby holds out its arms and legs "just like a star-fish", is "sn… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The bab… · tree and pragmatics description: The baby holds out its arms and legs "just like a star-fish", is "snorting like a steam-engine", and keeps doubling up and straightening out. Who acts: baby. 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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), 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:6 # text = The baby holds out its arms and legs "just like a star-fish", is "snorting like a steam-engine", and keeps doubling up and straightening out. # 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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 out out ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 10 just just ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 11 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 15 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 snorting snort VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ _ 21 like like ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 steam steam NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 engine engine NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 30 doubling double VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 xcomp _ _ 31 up up ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 straightening straighten VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 conj _ _ 34 out out ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold out** | present | the baby | baby's arms and legs | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **snort** *in a quote* | present · progressive | | | | | | like a steam engine | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **keep** | present | the baby *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **double up** | gerund | the baby *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **straighten out** | gerund | the baby *not said here* | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:6`. **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): no change. **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…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/12-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat/5/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/12-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/12-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat/)