--- title: Old words in today's English: "I fancy" = I think, "don't be particu… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little… · tree and pragmatics description: Old words in today's English: "I fancy" = I think, "don't be particular" = don't be fussy, "a deal too flustered" = much too upset and muddled, "made believe" = pretended. Who acts: I. 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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 (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:008-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill.lesson:20 # text = Old words in today's English: "I fancy" = I think, "don't be particular" = don't be fussy, "a deal too flustered" = much too upset and muddled, "made believe" = pretended. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 008-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill.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 ×3, 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 : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 fancy fancy NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 = = PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 17 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 19 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 cop _ _ 20 particular particular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 parataxis _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 22 = = PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 24 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 cop _ _ 26 fussy fussy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 parataxis _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 31 too too ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 flustered flustered ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 ccomp _ _ 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 34 = = PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 much much ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 36 too too ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 upset upset ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 conj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 muddled muddle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 conj _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 41 " " PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 42 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 43 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 xcomp _ _ 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 43 punct _ _ 45 = = PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 46 pretended pretend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 20 conj _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fancy** *in a quote* | | I | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | | | | | | particular *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **is** | infinitive · do-support | | | | | | fussy *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **muddle** | participle | | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **make** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **believe** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **pretend** | participle | | | | | | | 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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