Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse, sentence 21
Old words in today's English: "I daresay" = I suppose, "take a fancy to" = start to like, "a capital one for" = really good at, "with passion" = with strong anger.
Who acts: face, I · What happens: daresay, suppose, take, start, like · To what, where: fancy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse» 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 (face, 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 | root | root |
| 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 daresay | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 daresay | nsubj |
| 10 | daresay | daresay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 words | parataxis |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 daresay | punct |
| 12 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 14 suppose | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 suppose | nsubj |
| 14 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 daresay | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 take | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 take | punct |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 suppose | ccomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fancy | det |
| 19 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 fancy | case |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 take | punct |
| 22 | = | = | SYM | _ | 23 start | punct |
| 23 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 take | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 like | mark |
| 25 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 start | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 like | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 one | punct |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 one | det |
| 29 | capital | capital | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 one | amod |
| 30 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 start | parataxis |
| 31 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 35 good | mark |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 good | punct |
| 33 | = | = | SYM | _ | 35 good | punct |
| 34 | really | really | ADV | _ | 35 good | advmod |
| 35 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 one | advcl |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 good | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 good | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 passion | punct |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 passion | case |
| 40 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 good | obl |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 passion | punct |
| 42 | = | = | SYM | _ | 45 anger | punct |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 anger | case |
| 44 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 anger | amod |
| 45 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 passion | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 words | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | daresay in a quote | present | face | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | suppose | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take in a quote | infinitive | a fancy | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | start | infinitive | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | like | to-infinitive | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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.
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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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