Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense, sentence 14

The Duchess twists the proverb «Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves» into «Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves».

Who acts: Duchess, pounds, sounds · What happens: twist, take · To what, where: proverb, care

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense» of the language 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 (Duchess, pounds, sounds), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Duchess	det
2	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 twists	nsubj
3	twists	twist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 proverb	det
5	proverb	proverb	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 twists	obj
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 Take	punct
7	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 proverb	appos
8	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Take	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 pence	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pence	det
11	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Take	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 take	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pounds	det
14	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 take	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 take	aux
16	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 Take	conj
17	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 take	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 themselves	case
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 take	obl
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 twists	punct
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 Take	mark
22	«	«	PUNCT	_	23 Take	punct
23	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 twists	obl
24	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Take	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 sense	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sense	det
27	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Take	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 take	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 take	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sounds	det
31	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 take	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 take	aux
33	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 Take	conj
34	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 take	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 themselves	case
36	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 take	obl
37	»	»	PUNCT	_	23 Take	punct
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 twists	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	twist	present	the Duchess	the proverb		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent proverb=Theme
2	take in a quote	infinitive		care	of the pence	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of pence=Initial_Location
3	take in a quote	future	the pounds	care	of pounds = pound	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of themselves=Initial_Location
4	take in a quote	infinitive		care	of the sense	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of sense=Initial_Location
5	take in a quote	future	the sounds	care	of pounds = pound	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of themselves=Initial_Location

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:language:041-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense.lesson:14.

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, R7-rel-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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