Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 16

Carroll's poem makes fun of a serious old poem that children had to learn by heart, in which a wise old man gives good advice.

Who acts: poem, children, wise old man · What happens: make, have, learn, give · To what, where: fun, that, good advice, serious old poem

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Caterpillar» 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 (poem, children, wise old man), 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	Carroll	Carroll	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 poem	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Carroll	case
3	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	nsubj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 poem	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 poem	det
8	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 poem	amod
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 poem	amod
10	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fun	nmod
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 learn	obj
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 poem	acl:relcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 learn	mark
15	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	xcomp
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 heart	case
17	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 learn	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 gives	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 which	case
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 gives	obl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 man	det
22	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	amod
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	amod
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gives	nsubj
25	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 poem	acl:relcl
26	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 advice	amod
27	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gives	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 makes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	present	Carroll's poem	fun of a serious old poem			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product
2	have	past	children				tree rules
3	learn	to-infinitive	children not said here	that		by heart	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic
4	give	present	a wise old man	good advice	a serious old poem		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=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:009-alice-ch5-part1-advice-from-a-caterpillar.lesson:16.

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 ×2. 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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