--- title: Alice insists she is a little girl, but when she admits she has eate… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mush… · tree and pragmatics description: Alice insists she is a little girl, but when she admits she has eaten eggs, the Pigeon decides that little girls must be a kind of serpent too. Who acts: Alice, Pigeon, little girls. 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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, little girls), 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:3 # text = Alice insists she is a little girl, but when she admits she has eaten eggs, the Pigeon decides that little girls must be a kind of serpent too. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 insists insist VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 admits admit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 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 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 ccomp _ _ 16 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Pigeon pigeon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 20 decides decide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 24 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 cop _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 ccomp _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 serpent serpent NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 too too ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **insist** *speech: other* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | Alice | a little girl | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **admit** *speech: other* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **eat** | present · perfect | Alice | eggs | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient | | 5 | **decide** | present | the Pigeon | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | must | little girls | a kind | | | | 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:3`. **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): 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…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/2/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/)