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

The Cheshire Cat is grinning on a branch; Alice asks it which way to go, and it says that depends on where she wants to get to, then tells her that everyone round here is mad, the Hatter and the March Hare, the Cat and Alice too.

Who acts: Cheshire Cat, Alice, Cat, that, everyone · What happens: grin, ask, go, say, depend, want · To what, where: branch, way, Cat, Alice · 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, Alice, Cat, 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	3 Cat	det
2	Cheshire	Cheshire	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Cat	compound
3	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grinning	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 grinning	aux
5	grinning	grin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 branch	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 branch	det
8	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grinning	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 asks	punct
10	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 asks	nsubj
11	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 grinning	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 asks	iobj
13	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	14 way	det
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 asks	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 go	mark
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 way	acl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 says	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 says	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 says	nsubj
20	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 asks	conj
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 depends	nsubj
22	depends	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 says	ccomp
23	on	on	SCONJ	_	26 wants	mark
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 wants	advmod
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 wants	nsubj
26	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 depends	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 get	mark
28	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 wants	xcomp
29	to	to	ADP	_	28 get	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 tells	punct
31	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 tells	advmod
32	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 depends	conj
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 tells	obj
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 mad	mark
35	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	39 mad	nsubj
36	round	round	ADV	_	37 here	advmod
37	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 everyone	advmod
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 mad	cop
39	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 tells	ccomp
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 Hatter	punct
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Hatter	det
42	Hatter	hatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 mad	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 Hare	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Hare	det
45	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 Hare	compound
46	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Hatter	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 Cat	punct
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 Cat	det
49	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 Hare	appos
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 Alice	cc
51	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 Cat	conj
52	too	too	ADV	_	49 Cat	advmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grinning	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grin	present · progressive	the Cheshire Cat			a branch			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ask speech: ask	present	Alice	which way	Cat				tree rules
3	go	to-infinitive	Alice not said here	which way not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	present	Cat						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	depend	present	that						vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
6	want	present	Alice						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	Alice not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
8	tell speech: assert	present	that not said here		Alice		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
9	is	present	everyone					the Hatter and the March Hare obl; mad 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:012-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat.lesson:2.

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 ×1, R7-rel-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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