Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole (the fall), sentence 23

Old words in today's English: "presently" = soon after, "fancy" = just imagine, "to-night" = tonight, "I should think" = I expect.

Who acts: Old words, I · What happens: imagine, think, expect · To what, where: fancy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole (the fall)» 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 (Old words, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 words	amod
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 think	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 English	case
4	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 English	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 today	case
6	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 words	nmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 words	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 presently	punct
9	presently	presently	ADV	_	20 imagine	advmod
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 presently	punct
11	=	=	PUNCT	_	20 imagine	punct
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 imagine	advmod
13	after	after	ADP	_	12 soon	fixed
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fancy	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 fancy	punct
16	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 imagine	obl
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 fancy	punct
18	=	=	PUNCT	_	16 fancy	punct
19	just	just	ADV	_	20 imagine	advmod
20	imagine	imagine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 words	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 imagine	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 night	punct
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 night	case
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 to	punct
25	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 imagine	obl
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 night	punct
27	=	=	PUNCT	_	28 tonight	punct
28	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 night	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 words	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 think	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 think	nsubj
32	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 think	aux
33	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 think	punct
35	=	=	PUNCT	_	37 expect	punct
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 expect	nsubj
37	expect	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 think	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 think	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	imagine	infinitive		fancy	night	presently, soon property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	think speech: other in a quote	should	Old words in today's English				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	expect	present	I				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: 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, 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:001-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole.lesson:23.

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 ×4. 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.

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