--- title: A Pigeon flies at her face screaming "Serpent!": she has spent weeks… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mush… · tree and pragmatics description: A Pigeon flies at her face screaming "Serpent!": she has spent weeks guarding her eggs from serpents, and now one seems to have come wriggling down from the sky. Who acts: Pigeon, one. 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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, one), 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:2 # text = A Pigeon flies at her face screaming "Serpent!": she has spent weeks guarding her eggs from serpents, and now one seems to have come wriggling down from the sky. # 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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Pigeon pigeon NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 flies fly VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 screaming scream VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 Serpent serpent PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 ! ! PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 spent spend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 16 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 guarding guard VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 serpents serpent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 26 advmod _ _ 25 one one PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:nsubj|HaikuPos=NUM:CD:NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 28 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 aux _ _ 29 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 26 xcomp _ _ 30 wriggling wriggle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:advcl 31 down down ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 from from ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly** | present | a Pigeon | | | Pigeon's face | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at face=Location | | 2 | **scream** *speech: express* | gerund | a Pigeon *not said here* | Serpent | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serpent=Topic | | 3 | **spend** | present · perfect | Pigeon | | | | week | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **guard** | gerund | Pigeon *not said here* | Pigeon's eggs | | | | from serpents | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent egg=Beneficiary from serpent=Theme | | 5 | **seem** | present | one | | | | now | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 6 | **come** | to-infinitive · perfect | one *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **wriggle down** | gerund | one *not said here* | | | the sky | | down *property* | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:2`. **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 ×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…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/0/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/)