--- title: The Cheshire Cat is grinning on a branch; Alice asks it which way to… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The bab… · tree and pragmatics description: The Cheshire Cat is grinning on a branch; Alice asks it which way to go, and it says that depends on where she wants to get to, then tells her that everyone round here is mad, the Hatter and the March Hare, the Cat and Alice too. Who acts: Cheshire Cat, Alice, Cat, that. 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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, Alice, Cat, that), 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:2 # text = The Cheshire Cat is grinning on a branch; Alice asks it which way to go, and it says that depends on where she wants to get to, then tells her that everyone round here is mad, the Hatter and the March Hare, the Cat and Alice too. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 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 grinning grin 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 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obj 13 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 14 det _ _ 14 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 acl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 21 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 22 depends depend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 23 on on SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 26 advmod _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 28 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 31 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 32 advmod _ _ 32 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 33 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 35 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 39 nsubj _ _ 36 round round ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 35 advmod _ _ 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 39 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 ccomp _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 Hatter hatter NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 Hare Hare PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 conj _ _ 47 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 Cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 appos _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 51 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 conj _ _ 52 too too ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 53 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grin** | present · progressive | the Cheshire Cat | | | a branch | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Alice | which way | Cat | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | which way *not said here* | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Cat | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **depend** | present | that | | | | | | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **want** | present | Alice | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 7 | **get** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | that *not said here* | | Alice | | then | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 9 | **is** | present | everyone | | | | | the Hatter and the March Hare *obl*; mad *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. **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:2`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/12-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat/1/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/12-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/12-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat/)