--- title: Old words in today's English: "a consultation" = a talk to decide so… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The dr… · tree and pragmatics description: Old words in today's English: "a consultation" = a talk to decide something, "assembled" = gathered, "I proceed" = I'll carry on, "inclined" = willing. Who acts: Old words, Dodo. 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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 (Old words, Dodo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:005-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race.lesson:22 # text = Old words in today's English: "a consultation" = a talk to decide something, "assembled" = gathered, "I proceed" = I'll carry on, "inclined" = willing. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 005-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race.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 ×1 1 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 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 : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 consultation consultation NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 = = PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 decide decide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 acl _ _ 17 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 assembled assemble VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl:relcl _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 = = PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 gathered gather VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 proceed proceed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 = = PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 33 on on ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 36 inclined inclined ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 parataxis _ _ 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 38 = = PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 willing willing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 conj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **decide** | to-infinitive | Old words in today's English *not said here* | something | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent something=Topic | | 2 | **assemble** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **gather** | participle | | | | | | | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **proceed** *in a quote* | present | the Dodo *= dodo* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **carry on** | future | Old words in today's English | | | | | | tree rules | 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. 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