--- title: Old words in today's English: "a morsel" = a small bite, "indignantl… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mush… · tree and pragmatics description: Old words in today's English: "a morsel" = a small bite, "indignantly" = crossly, because something seems unfair, "subdued" = quieter, "must needs" = just had to. Who acts: something, Old words. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (something, Old words), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:010-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon.lesson:21 # text = Old words in today's English: "a morsel" = a small bite, "indignantly" = crossly, because something seems unfair, "subdued" = quieter, "must needs" = just had to. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 010-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon.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 40 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=10:punct 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 morsel morsel NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 = = SYM SYM _ 15 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 bite bite NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 18 indignantly indignantly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 20 = = SYM SYM _ 2 punct _ _ 21 crossly crossly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 because because SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 25 nsubj _ _ 25 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 26 unfair unfair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 29 subdued subdue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 31 = = SYM SYM _ 32 punct _ _ 32 quieter quieter NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 35 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 needs need NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 acl:relcl _ _ 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 38 = = SYM SYM _ 2 punct _ _ 39 just just ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 40 xcomp _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 40 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seem** | present | something | | | | | unfair *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **subdue** *in a quote* | participle | | Old words in today's English and a small bite and quieter *not said here* | | | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **have** | past | Old words in today's English and a small bite and quieter | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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:010-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon.lesson:21`. **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 V, part 2…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/20/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/11-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/)