--- title: Old words in today's English: "sternly" = strictly, "contemptuously"… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice f… · tree and pragmatics description: Old words in today's English: "sternly" = strictly, "contemptuously" = with scorn, "give yourself airs" = act as if you are better than others, "supple" = bendy, "suet" = hard fat used in cooking. Who acts: Old words, 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 (Old words, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:009-alice-ch5-part1-advice-from-a-caterpillar.lesson:22 # text = Old words in today's English: "sternly" = strictly, "contemptuously" = with scorn, "give yourself airs" = act as if you are better than others, "supple" = bendy, "suet" = hard fat used in cooking. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 009-alice-ch5-part1-advice-from-a-caterpillar.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 ×5 1 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 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 sternly sternly ADV RB _ 2 conj _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 = = SYM SYM _ 2 punct _ _ 12 strictly strictly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 15 contemptuously contemptuously ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 17 = = SYM SYM _ 19 punct _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 scorn scorn NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 22 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 23 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 22 iobj _ _ 24 airs air NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 = = SYM SYM _ 24 punct _ _ 27 act act NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ _ 28 as as SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 29 if if SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 advcl _ _ 33 than than ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 " " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ _ 37 supple supple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 39 = = SYM SYM _ 37 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=40:punct 40 bendy bendy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 conj _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 " " PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ _ 43 suet suet NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 parataxis _ _ 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 43 punct _ _ 45 = = SYM SYM _ 37 punct _ _ 46 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 fat fat NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 48 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 47 acl _ _ 49 in in ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 cooking cooking NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: fragment - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed form=frag, act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | Old words in today's English and scorn | airs | yourself | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | you | | | | | than others; good *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **use** | participle | | supple hard fat *not said here* | | cooking | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:009-alice-ch5-part1-advice-from-a-caterpillar.lesson:22`. **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 ×5. **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 V, part 1…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/9-alice-ch5-part1-advice-from-a-caterpillar/21/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/9-alice-ch5-part1-advice-from-a-caterpillar/)