Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon, sentence 11
A Pigeon beats her with its wings, screaming "Serpent!"; it has tried "the roots of trees", "banks" and "hedges" to keep its eggs safe.
Who acts: Pigeon, direction · What happens: beat, scream, try, keep · To what, where: chin, Serpent, roots, eggs
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 (Pigeon, direction), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Pigeon | det |
| 2 | Pigeon | pigeon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 beats | nsubj |
| 3 | beats | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 beats | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 wings | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wings | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 beats | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 screaming | punct |
| 9 | screaming | scream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 beats | advcl |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Serpent | punct |
| 11 | Serpent | serpent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 screaming | obj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 Serpent | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Serpent | punct |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 tried | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 tried | nsubj |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 tried | aux |
| 17 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 beats | parataxis |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 roots | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 roots | det |
| 20 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 tried | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 trees | case |
| 22 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 roots | nmod |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 roots | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 banks | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 banks | punct |
| 26 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 roots | conj |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 banks | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 hedges | cc |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 hedges | punct |
| 30 | hedges | hedge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 roots | conj |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 hedges | punct |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 keep | mark |
| 33 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 tried | advcl |
| 34 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 35 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 keep | obj |
| 36 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 keep | xcomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 beats | punct |
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 | beat | present | a Pigeon | chin | with direction's wings | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent her=Patient with wing=Instrument | |||
| 2 | scream speech: express | gerund | a Pigeon not said here | Serpent | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serpent=Topic | ||||
| 3 | try | present · perfect | direction | the roots of trees and banks and hedges | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | keep | to-infinitive | direction not said here | direction's eggs | safe property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=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, 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: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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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