--- title: The Pigeon says "A likely story indeed!", which means: I don't belie… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mush… · tree and pragmatics description: The Pigeon says "A likely story indeed!", which means: I don't believe you; it has seen many little girls, "but never one with such a neck as that!" Who acts: Pigeon, I, story. 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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, I, story), 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:15 # text = The Pigeon says "A likely story indeed!", which means: I don't believe you; it has seen many little girls, "but never one with such a neck as that!" # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Pigeon pigeon NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 5 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 likely likely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj 8 indeed indeed ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 ! ! PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:ccomp 24 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 29 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 conj _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 35 det:predet _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 36 as as ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 nmod _ _ 38 ! ! PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Pigeon | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **believe** | present · do-support | I | you | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 4 | **see** | present · perfect | story | many little girls | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus | 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:15`. **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): R7-rel-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…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/14/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/)