The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs, sentence 18
Alice is called a «serpent» by the Pigeon because of her long neck; real pigeons eat seeds and grain, not eggs, but snakes do eat birds' eggs, so the Pigeon's fear is real for birds.
Who acts: Pigeon, real pigeons, snakes, fear · What happens: call, eat, be, fear · To what, where: Alice, seeds, eggs · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pigeon, real pigeons, snakes, fear), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | aux:pass |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 serpent | det |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 serpent | punct |
| 6 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | xcomp |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 serpent | punct |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 Pigeon | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Pigeon | det |
| 10 | Pigeon | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obl:agent |
| 11 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 15 neck | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 because | fixed |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 neck | nmod:poss |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 neck | amod |
| 15 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 eat | punct |
| 17 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 pigeons | amod |
| 18 | pigeons | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 eat | nsubj |
| 19 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | parataxis |
| 20 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 eat | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 grain | cc |
| 22 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seeds | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 eggs | punct |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 eggs | advmod |
| 25 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 seeds | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 eat | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 eat | cc |
| 28 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 eat | nsubj |
| 29 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 eat | aux |
| 30 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 eat | conj |
| 31 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 31 birds | case |
| 33 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 eat | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 real | punct |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 41 real | advmod |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Pigeon | det |
| 37 | Pigeon | pigeon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 fear | nmod:poss |
| 38 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 37 Pigeon | case |
| 39 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 real | nsubj |
| 40 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 real | cop |
| 41 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 eat | parataxis |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 birds | case |
| 43 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 real | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | present · passive | the Pigeon | Alice | because Alice's long neck | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient | |||
| 2 | eat | present | real pigeons | seeds and grain and eggs | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient | ||||
| 3 | eat | present · do-support | snakes | birds's eggs | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the Pigeon's fear | for birds; real property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fear | the Pigeon | nom fear «feeling 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, 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:biology:401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog.lesson:18.
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): 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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