--- title: A Pigeon beats her with its wings, screaming "Serpent!"; it has trie… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mush… · tree and pragmatics description: A Pigeon beats her with its wings, screaming "Serpent!"; it has tried "the roots of trees", "banks" and "hedges" to keep its eggs safe. Who acts: Pigeon, direction. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pigeon, direction), 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:11 # text = A Pigeon beats her with its wings, screaming "Serpent!"; it has tried "the roots of trees", "banks" and "hedges" to keep its eggs safe. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Pigeon pigeon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 beats beat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 screaming scream VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 Serpent serpent PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 ! ! PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 tried try VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 26 banks bank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 30 hedges hedge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 34 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 xcomp _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **beat** | present | a Pigeon | chin | | | | with direction's wings | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent her=Patient with wing=Instrument | | 2 | **scream** *speech: express* | gerund | a Pigeon *not said here* | Serpent | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serpent=Topic | | 3 | **try** | present · perfect | direction | the roots of trees and banks and hedges | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Eventuality | | 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive | direction *not said here* | direction's eggs | | | | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme | 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](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:11`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/10/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/)