Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon, sentence 2
A Pigeon flies at her face screaming "Serpent!": she has spent weeks guarding her eggs from serpents, and now one seems to have come wriggling down from the sky.
Who acts: Pigeon, one · What happens: fly, scream, spend, guard, seem, come · To what, where: face, Serpent, eggs, sky
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, one), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flies | nsubj |
| 3 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 face | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 face | nmod:poss |
| 6 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flies | obl |
| 7 | screaming | scream | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 flies | advcl |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Serpent | punct |
| 9 | Serpent | serpent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 screaming | obj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 Serpent | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Serpent | punct |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 spent | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 spent | nsubj |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 spent | aux |
| 15 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 flies | parataxis |
| 16 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 spent | obj |
| 17 | guarding | guard | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 spent | advcl |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 guarding | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 serpents | case |
| 21 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 guarding | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 seems | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 seems | cc |
| 24 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 seems | advmod |
| 25 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 seems | nsubj |
| 26 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 flies | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 come | mark |
| 28 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 come | aux |
| 29 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 seems | xcomp |
| 30 | wriggling | wriggle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 come | xcomp |
| 31 | down | down | ADV | _ | 30 wriggling | advmod |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 sky | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 sky | det |
| 34 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 wriggling | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flies | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | present | a Pigeon | Pigeon's face | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at face=Location | ||||
| 2 | scream speech: express | gerund | a Pigeon not said here | Serpent | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serpent=Topic | ||||
| 3 | spend | present · perfect | Pigeon | week | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | guard | gerund | Pigeon not said here | Pigeon's eggs | from serpents | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent egg=Beneficiary from serpent=Theme | |||
| 5 | seem | present | one | now | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | come | to-infinitive · perfect | one not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | wriggle down | gerund | one not said here | the sky | down property | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:2.
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 ×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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