Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon, sentence 3

Alice insists she is a little girl, but when she admits she has eaten eggs, the Pigeon decides that little girls must be a kind of serpent too.

Who acts: Alice, Pigeon, little girls · What happens: insist, be, admit, eat, decide · To what, where: little girl, 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, little girls), 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 insists	nsubj
2	insists	insist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 girl	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 girl	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 girl	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 girl	amod
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 insists	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 admits	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 admits	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 admits	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 admits	nsubj
12	admits	admit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 insists	conj
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 eaten	nsubj
14	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 eaten	aux
15	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 admits	ccomp
16	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 eaten	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 decides	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Pigeon	det
19	Pigeon	pigeon	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 decides	nsubj
20	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 insists	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 girls	mark
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 girls	amod
23	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 kind	nsubj
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 kind	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 kind	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 kind	det
27	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 decides	ccomp
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 serpent	case
29	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 kind	nmod
30	too	too	ADV	_	20 decides	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 insists	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	insist speech: other	present	Alice			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	Alice	a little girl		tree rules
3	admit speech: other	present	Alice			vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	eat	present · perfect	Alice	eggs		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient
5	decide	present	the Pigeon			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	must	little girls	a kind	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:3.

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): 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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