Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon, sentence 16

Alice, "a very truthful child", admits she has tasted eggs, and the Pigeon says "if they do, why then they're a kind of serpent".

Who acts: Alice, Pigeon, eggs · What happens: admit, taste, say, be · To what, where: eggs, kind · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Alice, Pigeon, eggs), 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	10 admits	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 child	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 child	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 child	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 truthful	advmod
6	truthful	truthful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 child	amod
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Alice	appos
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 child	punct
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Alice	punct
10	admits	admit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tasted	nsubj
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tasted	aux
13	tasted	taste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 admits	ccomp
14	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tasted	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 says	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 says	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Pigeon	det
18	Pigeon	pigeon	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 says	nsubj
19	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 admits	conj
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 kind	punct
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 do	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 do	nsubj
23	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 kind	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 do	punct
25	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	26 then	advmod
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 kind	advmod
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 kind	nsubj
28	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 kind	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 kind	det
30	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 says	ccomp
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 serpent	case
32	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 kind	nmod
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 kind	punct
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 admits	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	admit speech: other	present	Alice				vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	taste	present · perfect	Alice	eggs			vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme egg=Attribute
3	say speech: assert	present	the Pigeon				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present	eggs = egg	a kind	then	of serpent	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: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, 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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