Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig and the Cheshire Cat, sentence 12

The Cheshire Cat is sitting on a bough (a branch) of a tree; it looks good-natured but has "very long claws and a great many teeth", so Alice thinks it "ought to be treated with respect", and calls it "Cheshire Puss".

Who acts: Cheshire Cat, tree, Alice · What happens: sit, look, have, think, treat, call · To what, where: bough, long claws, tree · 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 (Cheshire Cat, tree, Alice), 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	3 Cat	det
2	Cheshire	Cheshire	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Cat	compound
3	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	aux
5	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 bough	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bough	det
8	bough	bough	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl
9	(	(	PUNCT	_	11 branch	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 branch	det
11	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bough	appos
12	)	)	PUNCT	_	11 branch	punct
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 tree	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 tree	det
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bough	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 looks	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 looks	nsubj
18	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	parataxis
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 natured	amod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 good	punct
21	natured	natured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 looks	xcomp
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 has	cc
23	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 looks	conj
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 claws	punct
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 long	advmod
26	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 claws	amod
27	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 has	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 teeth	cc
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 teeth	det
30	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 teeth	amod
31	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 teeth	amod
32	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 claws	conj
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 claws	punct
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 thinks	punct
35	so	so	ADV	_	37 thinks	advmod
36	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 thinks	nsubj
37	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 looks	parataxis
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 ought	nsubj:pass
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 ought	punct
40	ought	ought	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 thinks	ccomp
41	to	to	PART	_	43 treated	mark
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 treated	aux:pass
43	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 ought	xcomp
44	with	with	ADP	_	45 respect	case
45	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 treated	obl
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 respect	punct
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 calls	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 calls	cc
49	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 thinks	conj
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 calls	obj
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	53 Puss	punct
52	Cheshire	Cheshire	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 Puss	compound
53	Puss	puss	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 calls	xcomp
54	"	"	PUNCT	_	53 Puss	punct
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	present · progressive	the Cheshire Cat		a bough of a tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bough=Location
2	look	present	tree			natured property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	have	present	tree not said here	long claws and a great many teeth			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Patient
4	think speech: other	present	Alice				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	treat in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	Alice not said here			with respect	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: with respect=Theme
6	call	present	Alice not said here	tree			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

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:012-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat.lesson:12.

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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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