--- title: Old words in today's English: "uncivil" = rude, "most of 'em" = most… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The foo… · tree and pragmatics description: Old words in today's English: "uncivil" = rude, "most of 'em" = most of them, "a deal faster" = much faster, "severely" = harshly, "in an agony of terror" = terribly frightened. 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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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:011-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper.lesson:26 # text = Old words in today's English: "uncivil" = rude, "most of 'em" = most of them, "a deal faster" = much faster, "severely" = harshly, "in an agony of terror" = terribly frightened. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 011-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 nsubj:pass _ _ 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 : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 uncivil uncivil NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 = = PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 appos _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 15 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 nmod _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 'em they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nmod _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 19 = = PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 20 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 27 amod _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 faster faster ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 parataxis _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 = = PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 much much ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 faster fast ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 appos _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 34 severely severely ADV RB _ 31 conj _ _ 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ 36 = = PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 37 harshly harshly ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 39 " " PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 agony agony NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 terror terror NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ _ 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=44:punct 46 = = PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 47 terribly terribly ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 48 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **frighten** | participle · passive | | Old words in today's English most of 'em and a agony of terror | | | | terribly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | 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:011-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper.lesson:26`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part…, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/11-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper/25/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/12-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/11-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper/)