Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen, sentence 20
The Duchess says "It's a Cheshire cat, and that's why.
Who acts: Duchess, cook, that · What happens: say, be · To what, where: Cheshire cat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen» 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 (Duchess, cook, that), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Duchess | det |
| 2 | Duchess | duchess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 cat | punct |
| 5 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cat | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cat | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cat | det |
| 8 | Cheshire | Cheshire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cat | compound |
| 9 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 why | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 why | cc |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 why | nsubj |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 why | cop |
| 14 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 says | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the Duchess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | cook | a Cheshire cat | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | that | why property | tree rules |
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:books:011-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper.lesson:20.
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): 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.
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