--- title: The Cat keeps vanishing and appearing, and at last fades away slowly… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The bab… · tree and pragmatics description: The Cat keeps vanishing and appearing, and at last fades away slowly, starting with its tail and ending with its grin, which hangs in the air on its own. Who acts: Cat, grin, tail. 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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 (Cat, grin, tail), 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:3 # text = The Cat keeps vanishing and appearing, and at last fades away slowly, starting with its tail and ending with its grin, which hangs in the air on its own. # 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 ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 vanishing vanish VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 xcomp _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 appearing appear VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 conj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 last last NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 11 fades fade VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 away away ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod 14 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 15 starting start VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 advcl _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 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 15 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 ending end VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 conj _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 grin grin NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 hangs hang VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **keep** | present | the Cat | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **vanish** | gerund | the Cat *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **appear** | gerund | the Cat *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **fade away** | present | the Cat *not said here* | | | last | | away, slowly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **start** | gerund | the Cat *not said here* | | | | | with last's tail | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with tail=Subeventuality | | 6 | **end** | gerund | the Cat *not said here* | | | | | with tail's grin | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with grin=Subeventuality | | 7 | **hang** | present | tail's grin | | | the air | | on air's own | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location | | 8 | **grin** | | tail | | | | | | nom grin «communication intransitive»: 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:3`. **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 ×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…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/12-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat/2/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/12-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/12-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat/)