Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 45
“I didn’t know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I didn’t know that cats _could_ grin.”
Who acts: Duchess, Cheshire cats · What happens: not know, grin · To what, where: fact
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 (Duchess, Cheshire cats), 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 | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 grinned | mark |
| 7 | Cheshire | Cheshire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cats | compound |
| 8 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 grinned | nsubj |
| 9 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 10 grinned | advmod |
| 10 | grinned | grin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | advcl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 fact | case |
| 13 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 know | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fact | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 know | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 know | aux |
| 17 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 know | advmod |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 know | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 could | mark |
| 20 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 could | nsubj |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 cats | punct |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 know | ccomp |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 24 grin | punct |
| 24 | grin | grin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 could | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | past · do-support | Duchess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | grin in a quote | past | Cheshire cats | always property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not know in a quote | past · do-support | Duchess | fact | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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