--- title: The Cheshire Cat appears grin first; Alice waits until its eyes, and… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Q… · tree and pragmatics description: The Cheshire Cat appears grin first; Alice waits until its eyes, and then at least one ear, appear before talking, because «It's no use speaking to it till its ears have come» (it could not hear her), and then the whole head appears, but no body. Who acts: Cheshire Cat, Alice, grin, use. 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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, grin, use), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:016-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-2.lesson:16 # text = The Cheshire Cat appears grin first; Alice waits until its eyes, and then at least one ear, appear before talking, because «It's no use speaking to it till its ears have come» (it could not hear her), and then the whole head appears, but no body. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 016-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-2.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 ×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 PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 appears appear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 grin grin NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 5 advmod _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 waits wait VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 10 until until ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 15 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 18 nmod _ _ 18 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 appear appear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 22 before before SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 23 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 because because SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 26 « « PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 27 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 30 det _ _ 30 use use NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 advcl _ _ 31 speaking speak VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 acl _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ _ 34 till till SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 35 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 37 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ _ 39 » » PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ 40 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 44 punct _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 42 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 43 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 44 advmod _ _ 44 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 parataxis _ _ 45 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obj _ _ 46 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 44 punct _ _ 47 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 49 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 53 advmod _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 51 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nsubj _ _ 53 appears appear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 54 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 55 but but CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 56 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 57 det _ _ 57 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 conj _ _ 58 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **appear** | present | the Cheshire Cat | grin | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grin=Theme | | 2 | **wait** | present | Alice | | | | until grin's eyes and one ear | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **appear** | present | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **talk** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | grin | no use | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | gerund | no use *not said here* | | grin | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **come** *in a quote* | present · perfect | grin's ears | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **not** **hear** | could | ear | Alice | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | | 9 | **appear** | present | the whole head | | | | then | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:016-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-2.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 ×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. 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