Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals), sentence 22

«The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours» plays on «mine», a hole you dig minerals from, and «mine», belonging to me.

Who acts: you · What happens: be, play, dig from, belong · To what, where: minerals, me

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 is	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 more	det
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 is	advmod
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 is	expl
5	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 is	advcl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 mine	case
7	mine	mine	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 is	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 is	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 less	det
10	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 is	advmod
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 is	expl
12	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 plays	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 yours	case
14	yours	yours	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 is	obl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 is	punct
16	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 mine	case
18	«	«	PUNCT	_	19 mine	punct
19	mine	mine	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 plays	obl
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 mine	punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hole	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 hole	det
23	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mine	appos
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 dig	nsubj
25	dig	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 hole	acl:relcl
26	minerals	mineral	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 dig	obj
27	from	from	ADP	_	25 dig	compound:prt
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 mine	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 mine	cc
30	«	«	PUNCT	_	31 mine	punct
31	mine	mine	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 hole	conj
32	»	»	PUNCT	_	31 mine	punct
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 mine	punct
34	belonging	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 mine	acl
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 me	case
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 belonging	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 plays	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	present				there	of the Duchess = duchess	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be in a quote	present				there	of yours; less property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	play	present					on mine	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	dig from	present	you	minerals				vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mineral=Theme
5	belong	gerund			me			vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

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, 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:017-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1. 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.

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