--- title: The Cheshire Cat told Alice in chapter VI that a Hatter and a March… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad… · tree and pragmatics description: The Cheshire Cat told Alice in chapter VI that a Hatter and a March Hare live nearby and that «they're both mad»; she chose the March Hare. Who acts: Cheshire Cat, Hatter, words, 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, Hatter, words, Alice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:013-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1.lesson:11 # text = The Cheshire Cat told Alice in chapter VI that a Hatter and a March Hare live nearby and that «they're both mad»; she chose the March Hare. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 013-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Cheshire Cheshire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Cat Cat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 iobj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 chapter chapter NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 VI VI NUM CD NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card 7 flat _ _ 9 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Hatter Hatter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 Hare Hare PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 16 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 17 nearby nearby ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 20 « « PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 both both ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 chose choose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 Hare Hare PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the Cheshire Cat | | Alice | chapter | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent alice=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **live** | present | a Hatter and a March Hare | | | | | nearby *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | words *= word* | | | | | both, mad *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **choose** | past | Alice | the March Hare | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=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:books:013-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1.lesson:11`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4. **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 VII, part…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/13-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1/10/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/13-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/13-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1/)