--- title: Old words in today's English: "lest" = in case, "directly" = at once… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck i… · tree and pragmatics description: Old words in today's English: "lest" = in case, "directly" = at once, "as a last resource" = as the last thing left to try, "no sort of chance" = no chance at all. Who acts: last thing, sort. 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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 (last thing, sort), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:007-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house.lesson:25 # text = Old words in today's English: "lest" = in case, "directly" = at once, "as a last resource" = as the last thing left to try, "no sort of chance" = no chance at all. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 007-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4 1 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 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=9:punct 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 lest lest ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 0 root _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 = = SYM SYM _ 13 punct _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 case case NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 16 directly directly ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 = = SYM SYM _ 20 punct _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 once once ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 23 as as ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 resource resource NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 28 = = SYM SYM _ 33 punct _ _ 29 as as SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 try try VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 37 " " PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 38 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 39 det _ _ 39 sort sort NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=41:punct 43 = = SYM SYM _ 45 punct _ _ 44 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 45 det _ _ 45 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 46 at at ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 45 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:obl 48 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | past | the last thing | no sort of chance | | | | no chance at all *obl* | tree rules | | 2 | **try** | to-infinitive | no sort of chance *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **sort** *in a quote* | | | chance | | | | | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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:007-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house.lesson:25`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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 IV, part…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/7-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house/24/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/7-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house/)