Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig and the Cheshire Cat, sentence 13

Alice asks "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?", and the Cat answers "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."; Alice says "I don't much care where—so long as I get somewhere", and the Cat says "Then it doesn't matter which way you go."

Who acts: Alice, you, way, Cat, That, it · What happens: ask, tell, go, answer, depend, want · To what, where: way, Alice, good deal · 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 (Alice, you, way, Cat), 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	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 asks	nsubj
2	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
4	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tell	nsubj
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 asks	ccomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
9	please	please	INTJ	_	6 tell	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 way	punct
11	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	12 way	det
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 ought	nsubj
14	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 go	mark
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 ought	xcomp
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 here	case
18	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 go	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 answers	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 answers	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Cat	det
24	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 answers	nsubj
25	answers	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 asks	conj
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 depends	punct
27	That	that	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 depends	nsubj
28	depends	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 answers	ccomp
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 deal	det
30	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 deal	amod
31	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 depends	obj
32	on	on	ADP	_	33 where	case
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 deal	acl
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 want	nsubj
35	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 where	advcl:relcl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 get	mark
37	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 want	xcomp
38	to	to	ADP	_	37 get	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 where	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 where	punct
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 says	punct
42	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 says	nsubj
43	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 answers	parataxis
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	49 care	punct
45	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 care	nsubj
46	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 care	aux
47	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	49 care	advmod
48	much	much	ADV	_	49 care	advmod
49	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 says	ccomp
50	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	49 care	advmod
51	—	-	PUNCT	_	53 long	punct
52	so	so	ADV	_	53 long	advmod
53	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	49 care	advmod
54	as	as	SCONJ	_	56 get	mark
55	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 get	nsubj
56	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 long	advcl
57	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	56 get	advmod
58	"	"	PUNCT	_	49 care	punct
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 says	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 says	cc
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 Cat	det
62	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 says	nsubj
63	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 says	conj
64	"	"	PUNCT	_	69 matter	punct
65	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	69 matter	advmod
66	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 matter	nsubj
67	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	69 matter	aux
68	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	69 matter	advmod
69	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	63 says	ccomp
70	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	71 way	det
71	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 matter	obl:unmarked
72	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	73 go	nsubj
73	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	71 way	acl:relcl
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asks	punct
75	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 asks	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=ask, indirect=0

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Alice					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	would	you	which way	Alice			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient way=Topic
3	go in a quote	to-infinitive	which way not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from here=Initial_Location
4	answer speech: assert	present	the Cat					tree rules
5	depend in a quote	present	That	a good deal				tree rules
6	want in a quote	present	you					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	get not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
8	say speech: assert	present	Alice					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	not care in a quote	present · do-support	Alice				long property	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
10	get in a quote	present	Alice				somewhere property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
11	say speech: assert	present	the Cat					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
12	not matter in a quote	present · do-support	it	which way		then		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
13	go in a quote	present	you	which way not said here				vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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:books:012-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat.lesson:13.

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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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