--- title: The baby grunts, and Alice tells it "Don't grunt, that's not at all… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The bab… · tree and pragmatics description: The baby grunts, and Alice tells it "Don't grunt, that's not at all a proper way of expressing yourself." Who acts: baby, Alice, that, proper way. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig and the Cheshire Cat» of the books course of Mova's primary school w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/12-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/12-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat/) / 9 # Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig and the Cheshire Cat, sentence 9 The baby grunts, and Alice tells it "Don't grunt, that's not at all a proper way of expressing yourself." **Who acts:** baby, Alice, that, proper way · **What happens:** grunt, tell, not grunt, not be, express · **To what, where:** baby, proper way · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig and the Cheshire Cat» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (baby, Alice, that, proper way), 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:9 # text = The baby grunts, and Alice tells it "Don't grunt, that's not at all a proper way of expressing yourself." # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 grunts grunt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 10 Do do AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 aux _ _ 11 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 grunt grunt VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 14 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 21 nsubj _ _ 15 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 21 advmod _ _ 18 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 17 fixed _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 parataxis _ _ 22 of of SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 23 expressing express VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 acl _ _ 24 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 23 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grunt** | present | the baby | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Alice | | baby | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **grunt** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | a proper way | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **express** *in a quote* | gerund | a proper way *not said here* | baby | | | | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=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:012-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat.lesson:9`. **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): R7-rel-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…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/12-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat/7/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/12-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/12-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat/)