--- title: Old words in today's English: "I daresay" = I suppose, "take a fancy… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Poo… · tree and pragmatics description: Old words in today's English: "I daresay" = I suppose, "take a fancy to" = start to like, "a capital one for" = really good at, "with passion" = with strong anger. Who acts: face, I. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse» of the books cour --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/4-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears/21/) [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 II, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/4-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears/) / 21 # Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse, sentence 21 Old words in today's English: "I daresay" = I suppose, "take a fancy to" = start to like, "a capital one for" = really good at, "with passion" = with strong anger. **Who acts:** face, I · **What happens:** daresay, suppose, take, start, like · **To what, where:** fancy · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse» 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 (face, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:004-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears.lesson:21 # text = Old words in today's English: "I daresay" = I suppose, "take a fancy to" = start to like, "a capital one for" = really good at, "with passion" = with strong anger. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 004-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears.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 0 root _ _ 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 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 daresay daresay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 = = PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=SYM:SYM:_ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 suppose suppose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 17 take take VERB VB Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 fancy fancy NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 to to ADP TO _ 19 case _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 22 = = SYM SYM _ 23 punct _ _ 23 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 parataxis _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 capital capital ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 parataxis _ _ 31 for for SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 33 = = SYM SYM _ 35 punct _ _ 34 really really ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 advcl _ _ 36 at at ADP IN _ 35 obl _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 38 " " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 39 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 passion passion NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ _ 42 = = SYM SYM _ 45 punct _ _ 43 with with ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 anger anger NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **daresay** *in a quote* | present | face | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **suppose** | present | I | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | | a fancy | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme clause=Attribute | | 4 | **start** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **like** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | 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:004-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears.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, 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 II, part…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/4-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears/20/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/5-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/4-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears/)