Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (a head without a body), sentence 16

The Cheshire Cat appears grin first; Alice waits until its eyes, and then at least one ear, appear before talking, because «It's no use speaking to it till its ears have come» (it could not hear her), and then the whole head appears, but no body.

Who acts: Cheshire Cat, Alice, grin, use, ears, ear · What happens: appear, wait, talk, be, speak, come · To what, where: grin, use, Alice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (a head without a body)» 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, grin, use), 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 appears	nsubj
4	appears	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	grin	grin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 appears	obj
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 grin	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 waits	punct
8	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 waits	nsubj
9	waits	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 appears	parataxis
10	until	until	ADP	_	12 eyes	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 eyes	nmod:poss
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 waits	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ear	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ear	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 one	advmod
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 least	case
17	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 one	nmod
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 ear	nummod
19	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 eyes	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 appear	punct
21	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 waits	conj
22	before	before	SCONJ	_	23 talking	mark
23	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 appear	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 use	punct
25	because	because	SCONJ	_	30 use	mark
26	«	«	PUNCT	_	30 use	punct
27	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 use	nsubj
28	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 use	cop
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 use	det
30	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 appear	advcl
31	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 use	acl
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 speaking	obl
34	till	till	SCONJ	_	38 come	mark
35	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 ears	nmod:poss
36	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 come	nsubj
37	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 come	aux
38	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 speaking	advcl
39	»	»	PUNCT	_	38 come	punct
40	(	(	PUNCT	_	44 hear	punct
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 hear	nsubj
42	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 hear	aux
43	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 hear	advmod
44	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 speaking	parataxis
45	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 hear	obj
46	)	)	PUNCT	_	44 hear	punct
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 appears	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 appears	cc
49	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	53 appears	advmod
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 head	det
51	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 head	amod
52	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 appears	nsubj
53	appears	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 speaking	conj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 body	punct
55	but	but	CCONJ	_	57 body	cc
56	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	57 body	det
57	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 appears	conj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 appears	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	appear	present	the Cheshire Cat	grin			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grin=Theme
2	wait	present	Alice			until grin's eyes and one ear	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	appear	present	Alice not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	talk	gerund	Alice not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	present	grin	no use			tree rules
6	speak speech: other in a quote	gerund	no use not said here		grin		tree rules
7	come in a quote	present · perfect	grin's ears				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	not hear	could	ear	Alice			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
9	appear	present	the whole head			then	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:016-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-2.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 ×1, R7-rel-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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