Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig and the Cheshire Cat, sentence 20

The Cat asks "Did you say pig, or fig?", then vanishes slowly, "beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin"; before that Alice asks it not to "keep appearing and vanishing so suddenly: you make one quite giddy", and afterwards thinks "I've often seen a cat without a grin, but a grin without a cat!"

Who acts: Cat, you, Alice, I · What happens: ask, say, vanish, begin, end, not keep · To what, where: pig, one, cat · 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 (Cat, you, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Cat	det
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asks	nsubj
3	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 pig	punct
5	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asks	ccomp
8	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fig	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 fig	cc
11	fig	fig	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pig	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 asks	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 asks	punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 vanishes	punct
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 vanishes	advmod
16	vanishes	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 asks	conj
17	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	16 vanishes	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 beginning	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 beginning	punct
20	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 vanishes	advcl
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 end	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 end	det
23	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 beginning	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 tail	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tail	det
26	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 end	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ending	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 ending	cc
29	ending	end	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 beginning	conj
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 grin	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 grin	det
32	grin	grin	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ending	obl
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 beginning	punct
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 asks	punct
35	before	before	ADV	_	38 asks	advmod
36	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 Alice	obl
37	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 asks	nsubj
38	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 asks	conj
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 asks	obj
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 keep	advmod
41	to	to	PART	_	43 keep	mark
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	43 keep	punct
43	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 asks	xcomp
44	appearing	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	43 keep	xcomp
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 vanishing	cc
46	vanishing	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	44 appearing	conj
47	so	so	ADV	_	43 keep	advmod
48	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	47 so	advmod
49	:	:	PUNCT	_	51 make	punct
50	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	51 make	nsubj
51	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 asks	advcl
52	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	51 make	obj
53	quite	quite	ADV	_	54 giddy	advmod
54	giddy	giddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 make	xcomp
55	"	"	PUNCT	_	51 make	punct
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 thinks	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 thinks	cc
58	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	59 thinks	advmod
59	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 asks	parataxis
60	"	"	PUNCT	_	64 seen	punct
61	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	64 seen	nsubj
62	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	64 seen	aux
63	often	often	ADV	_	64 seen	advmod
64	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	59 thinks	ccomp
65	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	66 cat	det
66	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 seen	obj
67	without	without	ADP	_	69 grin	case
68	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	69 grin	det
69	grin	grin	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 seen	obl
70	,	,	PUNCT	_	73 grin	punct
71	but	but	CCONJ	_	73 grin	cc
72	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	73 grin	det
73	grin	grin	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 seen	conj
74	without	without	ADP	_	76 cat	case
75	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	76 cat	det
76	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 grin	nmod
77	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 asks	punct
78	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 asks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	the Cat					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past · do-support	you	pig or fig				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent pig=Topic
3	vanish	present	the Cat not said here			then	slowly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	begin in a quote	gerund	the Cat not said here			with the end of the tail		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with end=Subeventuality
5	end in a quote	gerund	the Cat not said here				with the grin	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with grin=Subeventuality
6	ask speech: ask	present	Alice		pig		before property	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic
7	not keep not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Alice not said here					tree rules
8	appear in a quote	gerund	Alice not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	vanish in a quote	gerund	Alice not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	make in a quote	present	you	one			giddy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Product
11	think speech: other	present					afterwards property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
12	see in a quote	present · perfect	I	a cat			without a grin; often property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus

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:20.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-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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