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title: Alice is called a «serpent» by the Pigeon because of her long neck;… — The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the do… · tree and pragmatics
description: Alice is called a «serpent» by the Pigeon because of her long neck; real pigeons eat seeds and grain, not eggs, but snakes do eat birds' eggs, so the Pigeon's fear is real for birds. Who acts: Pigeon, real pigeons, snakes, fear. A sentence of the lesson «The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the
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# The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs, sentence 18

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Alice is called a «serpent» by the Pigeon because of her long neck; real pigeons eat seeds and grain, not eggs, but snakes do eat birds' eggs, so the Pigeon's fear is real for birds.

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**Who acts:** Pigeon, real pigeons, snakes, fear · **What happens:** call, eat, be, fear · **To what, where:** Alice, seeds, eggs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs» of the biology 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, real pigeons, snakes, fear), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog.lesson:18
# text = Alice is called a «serpent» by the Pigeon because of her long neck; real pigeons eat seeds and grain, not eggs, but snakes do eat birds' eggs, so the Pigeon's fear is real for birds.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:agent	_	_
11	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	15	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
20	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
29	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
31	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	'	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
35	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Pigeon	pigeon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=39:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
38	's	's	PART	POS	_	37	case	_	_
39	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
40	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
41	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	parataxis	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive | the Pigeon | Alice |  |  |  | because Alice's long neck | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **eat** | present | real pigeons | seeds and grain and eggs |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient |
| 3 | **eat** | present · do-support | snakes | birds's eggs |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | present | the Pigeon's fear |  |  |  |  | for birds; real *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **fear** |  | the Pigeon |  |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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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