Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (a head without a body), sentence 28

The Cat's head fades away while he is gone; when he comes back with the Duchess, it has entirely disappeared.

Who acts: head, executioner · What happens: fade away, be, come back, disappear

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 (head, executioner), 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 head	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Cat	case
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fades	nsubj
5	fades	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 fades	advmod
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 gone	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gone	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 gone	cop
10	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 fades	advcl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 comes	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 comes	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 comes	nsubj
14	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 disappeared	advcl
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 comes	advmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 Duchess	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Duchess	det
18	Duchess	duchess	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 comes	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 disappeared	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 disappeared	nsubj
21	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 disappeared	aux
22	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	23 disappeared	advmod
23	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 fades	parataxis
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fades	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	fade away	present	the Cat's head	away property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	executioner	go property	tree rules
3	come back	present	executioner	with the Duchess	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	disappear	present · perfect	head	entirely property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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:28.

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, 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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