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title: Her neck bends "in any direction, like a serpent", and she curves it… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mush… · tree and pragmatics
description: Her neck bends "in any direction, like a serpent", and she curves it into "a graceful zigzag"; "serpent" is an old word for snake. Who acts: neck. 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 schoo
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon, sentence 10

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Her neck bends "in any direction, like a serpent", and she curves it into "a graceful zigzag"; "serpent" is an old word for snake.

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**Who acts:** neck · **What happens:** bend, curve, be · **To what, where:** direction, graceful zigzag, old word

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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 (neck), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:010-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon.lesson:10
# text = Her neck bends "in any direction, like a serpent", and she curves it into "a graceful zigzag"; "serpent" is an old word for snake.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 010-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bends	bend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	parataxis	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:appos
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	curves	curve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	graceful	graceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	zigzag	zigzag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
26	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31: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 | **bend** | present | chin's neck |  |  | any direction |  | like a serpent | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in direction=Location |
| 2 | **curve** | present | neck | direction |  | a graceful zigzag |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent it=Material into zigzag=Product |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | a old word |  |  |  | for snake | tree rules |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:10`.

**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, R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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