Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 22
Old words in today's English: "sternly" = strictly, "contemptuously" = with scorn, "give yourself airs" = act as if you are better than others, "supple" = bendy, "suet" = hard fat used in cooking.
Who acts: Old words, you · What happens: give, be, use · To what, where: airs, yourself, supple hard fat, cooking
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Caterpillar» 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, you), 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 | 22 give | 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 sternly | punct |
| 9 | sternly | sternly | ADV | _ | 2 words | conj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 sternly | punct |
| 11 | = | = | SYM | _ | 2 words | punct |
| 12 | strictly | strictly | ADV | _ | 2 words | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 words | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 contemptuously | punct |
| 15 | contemptuously | contemptuously | ADV | _ | 2 words | advmod |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 contemptuously | punct |
| 17 | = | = | SYM | _ | 19 scorn | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 scorn | case |
| 19 | scorn | scorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 words | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 words | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 give | punct |
| 22 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 23 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 give | iobj |
| 24 | airs | air | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 give | obj |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 airs | punct |
| 26 | = | = | SYM | _ | 24 airs | punct |
| 27 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 airs | appos |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 better | mark |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 better | mark |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 better | nsubj |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 better | cop |
| 32 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 act | advcl |
| 33 | than | than | ADP | _ | 34 others | case |
| 34 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 better | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 supple | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 supple | punct |
| 37 | supple | supple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 fat | amod |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 supple | punct |
| 39 | = | = | SYM | _ | 37 supple | punct |
| 40 | bendy | bendy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 supple | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 suet | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 suet | punct |
| 43 | suet | suet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 supple | parataxis |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 suet | punct |
| 45 | = | = | SYM | _ | 37 supple | punct |
| 46 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 fat | amod |
| 47 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 give | obj |
| 48 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 fat | acl |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 cooking | case |
| 50 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 used | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 give | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- fragment
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed form=frag, act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | infinitive | Old words in today's English and scorn | airs | yourself | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | you | than others; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | use | participle | supple hard fat not said here | cooking | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: 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.
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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 ×5. 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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