Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon, sentence 10

Her neck bends "in any direction, like a serpent", and she curves it into "a graceful zigzag"; "serpent" is an old word for snake.

Who acts: neck · What happens: bend, curve, be · To what, where: direction, graceful zigzag, old word

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon» of the books 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 (neck), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 neck	nmod:poss
2	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bends	nsubj
3	bends	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 word	parataxis
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 bends	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 direction	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 direction	det
7	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bends	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 serpent	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 serpent	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 serpent	det
11	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bends	obl
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 serpent	punct
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 curves	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 curves	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 curves	nsubj
16	curves	curve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bends	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 curves	obj
18	into	into	ADP	_	22 zigzag	case
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 zigzag	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 zigzag	det
21	graceful	graceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 zigzag	amod
22	zigzag	zigzag	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 curves	obl
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 zigzag	punct
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 serpent	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 serpent	punct
26	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 zigzag	appos
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 serpent	punct
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 word	cop
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 word	det
30	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 word	amod
31	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 snake	case
33	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 word	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bends	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bend	present	chin's neck		any direction	like a serpent	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in direction=Location
2	curve	present	neck	direction	a graceful zigzag		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent it=Material into zigzag=Product
3	is a	present		a old word		for snake	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, 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:010-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon.lesson:10.

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, R6-punct-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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