Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon, sentence 12
The Pigeon "haven't had a wink of sleep these three weeks", watching for serpents night and day while hatching its eggs.
Who acts: Pigeon · What happens: not have, watch, hatch · To what, where: wink, serpents, 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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Pigeon | det |
| 2 | Pigeon | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 had | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 had | advmod |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 wink | det |
| 8 | wink | wink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sleep | case |
| 10 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wink | nmod |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 weeks | det |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 weeks | nummod |
| 13 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 had | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 watching | punct |
| 16 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 had | advcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 night | case |
| 18 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 watching | obl |
| 19 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 watching | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 day | cc |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 night | conj |
| 22 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 23 hatching | mark |
| 23 | hatching | hatch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 watching | advcl |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 25 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 hatching | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have in a quote | present · perfect | the Pigeon | a wink of sleep | week | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wink=Patient | |||
| 2 | watch | gerund | the Pigeon not said here | serpents | night | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | hatch | gerund | the Pigeon not said here | direction's eggs | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent egg=Product |
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:12.
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 ×2, R7-rel-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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