Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig and the Cheshire Cat, sentence 3
The Cat keeps vanishing and appearing, and at last fades away slowly, starting with its tail and ending with its grin, which hangs in the air on its own.
Who acts: Cat, grin, tail · What happens: keep, vanish, appear, fade away, start, end · To what, where: last, air
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, grin, tail), 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 keeps | nsubj |
| 3 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | vanishing | vanish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 keeps | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 appearing | cc |
| 6 | appearing | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 vanishing | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fades | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fades | cc |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 last | case |
| 10 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fades | obl |
| 11 | fades | fade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 keeps | conj |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 fades | advmod |
| 13 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 11 fades | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fades | punct |
| 15 | starting | start | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 fades | advcl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 tail | case |
| 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 | 15 starting | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ending | cc |
| 20 | ending | end | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 starting | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 grin | case |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 grin | nmod:poss |
| 23 | grin | grin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ending | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hangs | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 hangs | nsubj |
| 26 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 grin | acl:relcl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 air | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 air | det |
| 29 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hangs | obl |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 own | case |
| 31 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 own | nmod:poss |
| 32 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hangs | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | the Cat | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | vanish | gerund | the Cat not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | appear | gerund | the Cat not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fade away | present | the Cat not said here | last | away, slowly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 5 | start | gerund | the Cat not said here | with last's tail | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with tail=Subeventuality | ||||
| 6 | end | gerund | the Cat not said here | with tail's grin | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with grin=Subeventuality | ||||
| 7 | hang | present | tail's grin | the air | on air's own | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location | |||
| 8 | grin | tail | nom grin «communication intransitive»: 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:3.
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 ×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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