--- title: Alice, "a very truthful child", admits she has tasted eggs, and the… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mush… · tree and pragmatics description: Alice, "a very truthful child", admits she has tasted eggs, and the Pigeon says "if they do, why then they're a kind of serpent". Who acts: Alice, Pigeon, eggs. 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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 (Alice, Pigeon, eggs), 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:16 # text = Alice, "a very truthful child", admits she has tasted eggs, and the Pigeon says "if they do, why then they're a kind of serpent". # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 truthful truthful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 10 admits admit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 tasted taste VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 ccomp _ _ 14 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Pigeon pigeon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 19 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 21 if if SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 25 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 26 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advmod _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 ccomp _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 serpent serpent NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **admit** *speech: other* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **taste** | present · perfect | Alice | eggs | | | | | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme egg=Attribute | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Pigeon | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | eggs *= egg* | a kind | | | then | of serpent | tree rules | 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:16`. **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 ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/15/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/)