--- title: Cats cannot grin, vanish or talk; «to grin like a Cheshire cat» was… — The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the do… · tree and pragmatics description: Cats cannot grin, vanish or talk; «to grin like a Cheshire cat» was an old saying before Carroll, and nobody is quite sure where it came from. Who acts: Cats, nobody, fear. A sentence of the lesson «The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs» of t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The real animals of Wonderland: the do…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog/) / 19 # The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs, sentence 19 Cats cannot grin, vanish or talk; «to grin like a Cheshire cat» was an old saying before Carroll, and nobody is quite sure where it came from. **Who acts:** Cats, nobody, fear · **What happens:** not grin, vanish, talk, grin, be, come · **To what, where:** old saying · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs» of the biology 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 (Cats, nobody, fear), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog.lesson:19 # text = Cats cannot grin, vanish or talk; «to grin like a Cheshire cat» was an old saying before Carroll, and nobody is quite sure where it came from. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1 1 Cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 grin grin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 vanish vanish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc 8 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=6:conj 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 « « PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 grin grin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 csubj _ _ 13 like like ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 Cheshire Cheshire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 saying saying NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 22 before before ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Carroll Carroll PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=21:cc 26 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 29 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 quite quite ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 30 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 32 advmod _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 ccomp _ _ 33 from from ADP IN _ 32 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **not** **grin** | can | Cats | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **vanish** | infinitive | Cats *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **talk** | infinitive | Cats *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **grin** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | like a Cheshire cat | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | past | Cats *not said here* | a old saying | | | before Carroll | | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | present | nobody | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **come** | past | fear | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog.lesson:19`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×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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