--- title: The Cat's proof: a dog "growls when it's angry, and wags its tail wh… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The bab… · tree and pragmatics description: The Cat's proof: a dog "growls when it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased", but "I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Who acts: dog, way, Cat. 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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 (dog, way, Cat), 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:16 # text = The Cat's proof: a dog "growls when it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased", but "I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 proof proof NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 9 growls growl VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 10 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 mark _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 advcl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 wags wag VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 mark _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 pleased pleased ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 advcl _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 growl growl VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 29 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 32 mark _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 pleased pleased ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 advcl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 wag wag VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 36 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 41 mark _ _ 39 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 41 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 advcl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: express - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **growl** *in a quote* | present | a dog | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | dog | | | | | angry *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **wag** *in a quote* | present | a dog *not said here* | dog's tail | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | dog | | | | | pleased *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **growl** *in a quote* | present | way | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | way | | | | | pleased *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **wag** *in a quote* | infinitive | way *not said here* | my tail | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | | 8 | **is** *in a quote* | present | way | | | | | angry *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **proof** | | the Cat | | | | | | nom proof «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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:16`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-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…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/12-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat/15/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/12-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/12-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat/)