The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs, sentence 19

Cats cannot grin, vanish or talk; «to grin like a Cheshire cat» was an old saying before Carroll, and nobody is quite sure where it came from.

Who acts: Cats, nobody, fear · What happens: not grin, vanish, talk, grin, be, come · To what, where: old saying · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs» of the biology 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 (Cats, nobody, fear), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grin	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grin	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 grin	advmod
4	grin	grin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 vanish	punct
6	vanish	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 grin	conj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 talk	cc
8	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 grin	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 grin	punct
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 grin	punct
11	to	to	PART	_	12 grin	mark
12	grin	grin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 saying	csubj
13	like	like	ADP	_	16 cat	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 cat	det
15	Cheshire	Cheshire	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 cat	compound
16	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grin	obl
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 grin	punct
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 saying	cop
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 saying	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 saying	amod
21	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grin	conj
22	before	before	ADP	_	23 Carroll	case
23	Carroll	Carroll	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 saying	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sure	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sure	cc
26	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	29 sure	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 sure	cop
28	quite	quite	ADV	_	29 sure	advmod
29	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 saying	conj
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 came	advmod
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 came	nsubj
32	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 sure	ccomp
33	from	from	ADP	_	32 came	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grin	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not grin	can	Cats				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	vanish	infinitive	Cats not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	talk	infinitive	Cats not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	grin in a quote	to-infinitive				like a Cheshire cat	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	Cats not said here	a old saying	before Carroll		tree rules
6	is	present	nobody			sure property	tree rules
7	come	past	fear				vn escape-51.1-1 «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, 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:biology:401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog.lesson:19.

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 ×2, R3-conj-first ×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.

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