--- title: Old words in today's English: "presently" = soon after, "fancy" = ju… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the… · tree and pragmatics description: Old words in today's English: "presently" = soon after, "fancy" = just imagine, "to-night" = tonight, "I should think" = I expect. Who acts: Old words, I. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole (the fall)» of the books course of Mova's primary school w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/1-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole/23/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/1-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole/) / 23 # Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole (the fall), sentence 23 Old words in today's English: "presently" = soon after, "fancy" = just imagine, "to-night" = tonight, "I should think" = I expect. **Who acts:** Old words, I · **What happens:** imagine, think, expect · **To what, where:** fancy · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole (the fall)» 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, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:001-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole.lesson:23 # text = Old words in today's English: "presently" = soon after, "fancy" = just imagine, "to-night" = tonight, "I should think" = I expect. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 001-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole.lesson # annotation = 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 1 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 9 presently presently ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 = = PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 12 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 advmod _ _ 13 after after ADP IN _ 12 fixed _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 16 fancy fancy NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 = = PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 19 just just ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 imagine imagine VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 23 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 = = PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 tonight tonight NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 35 = = PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 expect expect VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **imagine** | infinitive | | fancy | | | night | presently, soon *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | should | Old words in today's English | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **expect** | present | I | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:001-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole.lesson:23`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/1-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole/22/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/1-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole/)