Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon, sentence 18

Alice tells the Pigeon she is not looking for eggs, and would not want its eggs anyway: "I don't like them raw."; the Pigeon says sulkily "Well, be off, then!", and Alice crouches among the trees, her neck getting tangled in the branches.

Who acts: Alice, Pigeon · What happens: tell, not look, not want, not like, say, be off · To what, where: Pigeon, eggs, trees, neck, branches · 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), 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	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Pigeon	det
4	Pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	obj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 looking	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 looking	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 looking	advmod
8	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 tells	ccomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 eggs	case
10	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 looking	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 want	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 want	cc
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 want	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 want	advmod
15	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 looking	conj
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 eggs	nmod:poss
17	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 want	obj
18	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	15 want	advmod
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 like	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 like	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 like	nsubj
22	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 like	aux
23	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 like	advmod
24	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tells	parataxis
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 like	obj
26	raw	raw	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 like	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 like	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 like	punct
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 says	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Pigeon	det
31	Pigeon	pigeon	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 says	nsubj
32	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tells	parataxis
33	sulkily	sulkily	ADV	_	32 says	advmod
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 be	punct
35	Well	well	INTJ	_	37 be	discourse
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Well	punct
37	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 says	ccomp
38	off	off	ADP	_	37 be	compound:prt
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 then	punct
40	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 be	advmod
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	40 then	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 then	punct
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 crouches	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 crouches	cc
45	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 crouches	nsubj
46	crouches	crouch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tells	conj
47	among	among	ADP	_	49 trees	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 trees	det
49	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 crouches	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 trees	punct
51	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 neck	nmod:poss
52	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 tangled	nsubj:pass
53	getting	get	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	54 tangled	aux:pass
54	tangled	tangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 crouches	advcl
55	in	in	ADP	_	57 branches	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 branches	det
57	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 tangled	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tells	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Alice	the Pigeon				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent pigeon=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not look	present · progressive	Pigeon				for eggs	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for egg=Theme
3	not want	would	Pigeon not said here	kind's eggs			anyway property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot egg=Theme
4	not like in a quote	present · do-support	Alice	eggs = egg			raw property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
5	say speech: express	present	the Pigeon				sulkily property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	be off in a quote	infinitive				then		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	crouch	present	Alice		the trees			vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among tree=Location
8	tangle	gerund · passive		Pigeon's neck	the branches			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: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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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