Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen, sentence 26

Old words in today's English: "uncivil" = rude, "most of 'em" = most of them, "a deal faster" = much faster, "severely" = harshly, "in an agony of terror" = terribly frightened.

What happens: frighten · To what, where: Old words

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen» 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: 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	48 frightened	nsubj:pass
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	_	9 uncivil	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 uncivil	punct
9	uncivil	uncivil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 words	appos
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 uncivil	punct
11	=	=	PUNCT	_	12 rude	punct
12	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 words	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 words	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 words	punct
15	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 words	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 'em	case
17	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 most	nmod
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 most	punct
19	=	=	PUNCT	_	27 faster	punct
20	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 faster	amod
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 most	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 most	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 faster	punct
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 faster	det
26	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 faster	compound
27	faster	faster	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 most	parataxis
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 faster	punct
29	=	=	PUNCT	_	31 faster	punct
30	much	much	ADV	_	31 faster	advmod
31	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 words	appos
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 severely	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 severely	punct
34	severely	severely	ADV	_	31 faster	conj
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 severely	punct
36	=	=	PUNCT	_	42 agony	punct
37	harshly	harshly	ADV	_	42 agony	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 harshly	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 agony	punct
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 agony	case
41	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 agony	det
42	agony	agony	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 words	conj
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 terror	case
44	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 agony	nmod
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 agony	punct
46	=	=	PUNCT	_	2 words	punct
47	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	48 frightened	advmod
48	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	48 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	frighten	participle · passive		Old words in today's English most of 'em and a agony of terror				terribly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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:011-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper.lesson:26.

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, 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.

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