Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon, sentence 21

Old words in today's English: "a morsel" = a small bite, "indignantly" = crossly, because something seems unfair, "subdued" = quieter, "must needs" = just had to.

Who acts: something, Old words · What happens: seem, subdue, have · To what, where: Old words

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 (something, Old words), 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	40 had	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	_	10 morsel	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 morsel	det
10	morsel	morsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 words	appos
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 morsel	punct
12	=	=	SYM	_	15 bite	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bite	det
14	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bite	amod
15	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 words	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 words	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 indignantly	punct
18	indignantly	indignantly	ADV	_	2 words	advmod
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 indignantly	punct
20	=	=	SYM	_	2 words	punct
21	crossly	crossly	ADV	_	2 words	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 seems	punct
23	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 seems	mark
24	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	25 seems	nsubj
25	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 words	conj
26	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 seems	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 subdued	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 subdued	punct
29	subdued	subdue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 words	acl
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 subdued	punct
31	=	=	SYM	_	32 quieter	punct
32	quieter	quieter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 words	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 words	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 needs	punct
35	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 needs	aux
36	needs	need	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 words	acl:relcl
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 words	punct
38	=	=	SYM	_	2 words	punct
39	just	just	ADV	_	40 had	advmod
40	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
41	to	to	PART	_	40 had	xcomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	40 had	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seem	present	something		unfair property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	subdue in a quote	participle		Old words in today's English and a small bite and quieter not said here		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	Old words in today's English and a small bite and quieter			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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:010-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon.lesson:21.

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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