Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little Bill, the pebbles and the puppy, sentence 20
Old words in today's English: "I fancy" = I think, "don't be particular" = don't be fussy, "a deal too flustered" = much too upset and muddled, "made believe" = pretended.
Who acts: I · What happens: fancy, think, not be, muddle, make, believe · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little Bill, the pebbles and the puppy» 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 (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 | _ | 10 fancy | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 fancy | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 fancy | nsubj |
| 10 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 words | nmod |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 fancy | punct |
| 12 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 14 think | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 think | nsubj |
| 14 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 fancy | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 particular | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 particular | punct |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 particular | aux |
| 18 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 particular | advmod |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 particular | cop |
| 20 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fancy | parataxis |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 particular | punct |
| 22 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 26 fussy | punct |
| 23 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 26 fussy | aux |
| 24 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 fussy | advmod |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 fussy | cop |
| 26 | fussy | fussy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 flustered | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fussy | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 flustered | punct |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 deal | det |
| 30 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 flustered | nsubj |
| 31 | too | too | ADV | _ | 32 flustered | advmod |
| 32 | flustered | flustered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 made | ccomp |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 flustered | punct |
| 34 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 37 upset | punct |
| 35 | much | much | ADV | _ | 37 upset | advmod |
| 36 | too | too | ADV | _ | 37 upset | advmod |
| 37 | upset | upset | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 flustered | conj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 muddled | cc |
| 39 | muddled | muddle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 upset | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 flustered | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 made | punct |
| 42 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 particular | conj |
| 43 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 made | xcomp |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 believe | punct |
| 45 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 46 pretended | punct |
| 46 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 particular | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 words | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fancy in a quote | I | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | infinitive · do-support | particular property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not is | infinitive · do-support | fussy property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | muddle | participle | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | make in a quote | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | believe in a quote | infinitive | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 8 | pretend | participle | 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, 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:008-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill.lesson:20.
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 ×3, 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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