--- title: Old words in today's English: "grave" = serious, "solemnly" = very s… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes… · tree and pragmatics description: Old words in today's English: "grave" = serious, "solemnly" = very seriously, "venture to ask" = dare to ask, "you can't think" = you can't imagine. Who acts: you. 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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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:006-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale.lesson:21 # text = Old words in today's English: "grave" = serious, "solemnly" = very seriously, "venture to ask" = dare to ask, "you can't think" = you can't imagine. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 006-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale.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 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=9:punct 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 grave grave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 appos _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 = = PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 12 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 15 solemnly solemnly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 appos _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 = = PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 very very ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 seriously seriously ADV RB _ 12 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 22 venture venture VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 appos _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 26 = = PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 27 dare dare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 parataxis _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 37 = = PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 39 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 41 imagine imagine VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **venture** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **dare** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | can | you | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **imagine** | can | you | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for 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. 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