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title: Alice tells the Pigeon she is not looking for eggs, and would not wa… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mush… · tree and pragmatics
description: Alice tells the Pigeon she is not looking for eggs, and would not want its eggs anyway: "I don't like them raw."; the Pigeon says sulkily "Well, be off, then!", and Alice crouches among the trees, her neck getting tangled in the branches. Who acts: Alice, Pigeon. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in W
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon, sentence 18

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Alice tells the Pigeon she is not looking for eggs, and would not want its eggs anyway: "I don't like them raw."; the Pigeon says sulkily "Well, be off, then!", and Alice crouches among the trees, her neck getting tangled in the branches.

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**Who acts:** Alice, Pigeon · **What happens:** tell, not look, not want, not like, say, be off · **To what, where:** Pigeon, eggs, trees, neck, branches · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Alice, 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:18
# text = Alice tells the Pigeon she is not looking for eggs, and would not want its eggs anyway: "I don't like them raw."; the Pigeon says sulkily "Well, be off, then!", and Alice crouches among the trees, her neck getting tangled in the branches.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:acl:relcl
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	raw	raw	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Pigeon	pigeon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
32	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
33	sulkily	sulkily	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	_
35	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	37	discourse	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
37	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	ccomp	_	_
38	off	off	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	_
41	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	40	punct	_	_
42	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
46	crouches	crouch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
47	among	among	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	_
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
51	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj:pass	_	_
53	getting	get	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	54	aux:pass	_	_
54	tangled	tangle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=46:acl
55	in	in	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	obl	_	_
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Alice | the Pigeon |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent pigeon=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **look** | present · progressive | Pigeon |  |  |  |  | for eggs | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for egg=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **want** | would | Pigeon *not said here* | kind's eggs |  |  |  | anyway *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot egg=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **like** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Alice | eggs *= egg* |  |  |  | raw *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: express* | present | the Pigeon |  |  |  |  | sulkily *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **be off** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **crouch** | present | Alice |  |  | the trees |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among tree=Location |
| 8 | **tangle** | gerund · passive |  | Pigeon's neck |  | the branches |  |  | 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:18`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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/).

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