--- title: The Cheshire Cat is sitting on a bough (a branch) of a tree; it look… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The bab… · tree and pragmatics description: The Cheshire Cat is sitting on a bough (a branch) of a tree; it looks good-natured but has "very long claws and a great many teeth", so Alice thinks it "ought to be treated with respect", and calls it "Cheshire Puss". Who acts: Cheshire Cat, tree, Alice. 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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, tree, Alice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:012-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat.lesson:12 # text = The Cheshire Cat is sitting on a bough (a branch) of a tree; it looks good-natured but has "very long claws and a great many teeth", so Alice thinks it "ought to be treated with respect", and calls it "Cheshire Puss". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 012-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat.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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Cheshire Cheshire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 bough bough NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 12 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 19 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 21 natured natured ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 25 very very ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 so so ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 36 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=43:nsubj:pass 39 " " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ _ 40 ought ought AUX MD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=43:aux 41 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 42 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 43 aux:pass _ _ 43 treated treat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:ccomp 44 with with ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 respect respect NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 45 punct _ _ 47 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=53:punct 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 conj _ _ 50 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 obj _ _ 51 " " PUNCT `` _ 53 punct _ _ 52 Cheshire Cheshire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 53 compound _ _ 53 Puss puss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=49:xcomp|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 54 " " PUNCT '' _ 53 punct _ _ 55 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | present · progressive | the Cheshire Cat | | | a bough of a tree | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bough=Location | | 2 | **look** | present | tree | | | | | natured *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **have** | present | tree *not said here* | long claws and a great many teeth | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Patient | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **treat** *in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive | Alice *not said here* | | | | | with respect | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: with respect=Theme | | 6 | **call** | present | Alice *not said here* | tree | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | 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:books:012-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat.lesson:12`. **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 ×4, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/12-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat/11/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/12-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/12-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat/)