Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen, sentence 21

Pig!" (shouting "Pig!" at the baby) and tells Alice "You don't know much, and that's a fact"; Alice says "I didn't know that cats could grin"; Cheshire is a county in England, and "to grin like a Cheshire cat" was an old saying.

Who acts: You, that, Alice, I, cats, Cheshire · What happens: shouting, tell, not know, be, say, grin · To what, where: Pig, baby, Alice, much, fact, county · 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 (You, that, Alice, I), 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	Pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Pig	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Pig	punct
4	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 shouting	punct
5	shouting	shouting	VERB	VerbForm=Part	1 Pig	parataxis
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Pig	punct
7	Pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shouting	obj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 Pig	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Pig	punct
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 baby	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 baby	det
12	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shouting	obl
13	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 shouting	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 tells	cc
15	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Pig	conj
16	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 tells	obj
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 know	punct
18	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 know	nsubj
19	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 know	aux
20	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 know	advmod
21	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 tells	ccomp
22	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 know	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fact	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fact	cc
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 fact	nsubj
26	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 fact	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 fact	det
28	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 much	parataxis
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 know	punct
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 says	punct
31	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 says	nsubj
32	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 tells	conj
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 know	punct
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 know	nsubj
35	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 know	aux
36	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 know	advmod
37	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 says	ccomp
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 grin	mark
39	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 grin	nsubj
40	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 grin	aux
41	grin	grin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 know	ccomp
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 know	punct
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 county	punct
44	Cheshire	Cheshire	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 county	nsubj
45	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 county	cop
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 county	det
47	county	county	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pig	parataxis
48	in	in	ADP	_	49 England	case
49	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 county	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 saying	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 saying	cc
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	54 grin	punct
53	to	to	PART	_	54 grin	mark
54	grin	grin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	63 saying	csubj
55	like	like	ADP	_	58 cat	case
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 cat	det
57	Cheshire	Cheshire	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 cat	compound
58	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 grin	obl
59	"	"	PUNCT	_	54 grin	punct
60	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 saying	cop
61	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	63 saying	det
62	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 saying	amod
63	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 county	conj
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Pig	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	shouting in a quote	gerund		Pig		the baby		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	present			Alice			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent alice=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not know	present · do-support	You	much				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus
4	is a	present	that	a fact				tree rules
5	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Alice					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not know	past · do-support	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	grin	could	cats					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is a in a quote	present	Cheshire	a county and a old saying		England		tree rules
9	grin	to-infinitive					like a Cheshire cat	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	is a in a quote	past	Cheshire not said here	a old saying				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:21.

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): R6-punct-agree ×4, 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.

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