Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 42

“It’s a Cheshire cat,” said the Duchess, “and that’s why.

Who acts: cat, Cheshire cat, that · What happens: be, say · To what, where: Cheshire cat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, Cheshire cat, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 cat	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cat	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cat	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cat	det
5	Cheshire	Cheshire	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cat	compound
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cat	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 cat	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Duchess	det
11	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 why	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 why	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 why	cc
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 why	nsubj
16	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 why	cop
17	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 Duchess	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	cat	a Cheshire cat		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a Cheshire cat			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	that		why 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.

Text: «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Project Gutenberg book 11 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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