Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps, sentence 13

Victorian children often learned poems by heart and recited them standing up; many of the poems Alice gets wrong in Wonderland were well-known school poems of the time, like «How doth the little busy bee».

Who acts: heart, Alice, many poems · What happens: learn, recite, stand up, get, know, be · To what, where: Victorian children, poems, many poems, Wonderland, known school poems

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps» of the history 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 (heart, Alice, many poems), 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	Victorian	victorian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 children	amod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 learned	nsubj:pass
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 learned	advmod
4	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	poems	poem	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 learned	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 heart	case
7	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 learned	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 recited	cc
9	recited	recite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 learned	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 recited	obj
11	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 recited	advcl
12	up	up	ADV	_	11 standing	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 poems	punct
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 poems	amod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 poems	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 poems	det
17	poems	poem	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 poems	nsubj
18	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 gets	nsubj
19	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 poems	acl:relcl
20	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 gets	xcomp
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 Wonderland	case
22	Wonderland	wonderland	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 gets	obl
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 poems	cop
24	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 known	advmod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 well	punct
26	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 poems	amod
27	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 poems	compound
28	poems	poem	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 recited	parataxis
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 time	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 time	det
31	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 poems	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 poems	punct
33	like	like	ADP	_	40 bee	case
34	«	«	PUNCT	_	36 doth	punct
35	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	36 doth	advmod
36	doth	doth	ADV	_	40 bee	advmod
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 bee	det
38	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 bee	amod
39	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 bee	amod
40	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 poems	nmod
41	»	»	PUNCT	_	40 bee	punct
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 learned	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	past · passive	heart	Victorian children			often property	tree rules
2	recite	past	heart not said here	poems = poem				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	stand up	gerund	heart not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	get	present	Alice	the many poems not said here	Wonderland		wrong property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer poem=Stimulus
5	know	participle					well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a	past	the many poems	known school poems		time	like the little busy bee	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, 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:history:081-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps.lesson:13.

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 ×1, R8-pos-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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