Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig and the Cheshire Cat, sentence 16
The Cat's proof: a dog "growls when it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased", but "I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry.
Who acts: dog, way, Cat · What happens: growl, be, wag, proof · To what, where: tail
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 (dog, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Cat | det |
| 2 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 proof | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Cat | case |
| 4 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 growls | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dog | det |
| 7 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 growls | nsubj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 growls | punct |
| 9 | growls | growl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 proof | appos |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 angry | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 angry | nsubj |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 angry | cop |
| 13 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 growls | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wags | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wags | cc |
| 16 | wags | wag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 growls | conj |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 tail | nmod:poss |
| 18 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wags | obj |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 pleased | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 pleased | nsubj |
| 21 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 pleased | cop |
| 22 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wags | advcl |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 growls | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 growl | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 growl | cc |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 growl | punct |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 growl | nsubj |
| 28 | growl | growl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 growls | conj |
| 29 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 pleased | mark |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 pleased | nsubj |
| 31 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 pleased | cop |
| 32 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 growl | advcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 wag | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 wag | cc |
| 35 | wag | wag | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 growl | conj |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 tail | nmod:poss |
| 37 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 wag | obj |
| 38 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 41 angry | mark |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 angry | nsubj |
| 40 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 angry | cop |
| 41 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 wag | advcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 proof | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- express
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | growl in a quote | present | a dog | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | dog | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wag in a quote | present | a dog not said here | dog's tail | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | dog | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | growl in a quote | present | way | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | way | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | wag in a quote | infinitive | way not said here | my tail | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | ||||
| 8 | is in a quote | present | way | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | proof | the Cat | nom proof «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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:16.
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 ×3, 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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