--- title: The Pigeon "haven't had a wink of sleep these three weeks", watching… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mush… · tree and pragmatics description: The Pigeon "haven't had a wink of sleep these three weeks", watching for serpents night and day while hatching its eggs. Who acts: Pigeon. 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 with i --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/) / 12 # Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon, sentence 12 The Pigeon "haven't had a wink of sleep these three weeks", watching for serpents night and day while hatching its eggs. **Who acts:** Pigeon · **What happens:** not have, watch, hatch · **To what, where:** wink, serpents, eggs 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), 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:12 # text = The Pigeon "haven't had a wink of sleep these three weeks", watching for serpents night and day while hatching its eggs. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Pigeon pigeon NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 4 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 wink wink NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 13 det _ _ 12 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 watching watch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis 17 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 serpents serpent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:compound 19 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 while while SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 23 hatching hatch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 24 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the Pigeon | a wink of sleep | | | week | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wink=Patient | | 2 | **watch** | gerund | the Pigeon *not said here* | serpents | | | night | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **hatch** | gerund | the Pigeon *not said here* | direction's eggs | | | | | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent egg=Product | 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:12`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/11/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/)