Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps, sentence 5

Knowing these things turns the jokes back on: the book was laughing at the grown-up rules, lessons and manners of Alice's own time.

Who acts: Knowing, book, own time · What happens: know, turn back, laugh, grow up, rule · To what, where: things, jokes, grown rules

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 (Knowing, book, own time), 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	Knowing	know	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 turns	csubj
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 things	det
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Knowing	obj
4	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 jokes	det
6	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turns	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	4 turns	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	4 turns	compound:prt
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 laughing	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 book	det
11	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 laughing	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 laughing	aux
13	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 turns	parataxis
14	at	at	ADP	_	19 rules	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 rules	det
16	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 rules	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 up	punct
18	up	up	ADP	_	16 grown	compound:prt
19	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 laughing	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lessons	punct
21	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 rules	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 manners	cc
23	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	21 lessons	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	28 time	case
25	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 time	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 Alice	case
27	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 time	amod
28	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rules	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 turns	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	know	gerund		this things		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
2	turn back	present	Knowing	the jokes		vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Theme
3	laugh	past · progressive	the book		the grown rules of Alice's own time and lessons and manners	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	grow up	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	rule		Alice's own time			nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=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, 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:5.

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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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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