Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad, sentence 0
Lewis Carroll and Kenneth Grahame both loved hyperbole and understatement, and they made jokes out of them.
Who acts: Lewis · What happens: love, make · To what, where: hyperbole, jokes
This is a sentence of the lesson «Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad» 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 (Lewis), 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 | Lewis | Lewis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 loved | nsubj |
| 2 | Carroll | Carroll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Lewis | flat |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Kenneth | cc |
| 4 | Kenneth | Kenneth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Lewis | conj |
| 5 | Grahame | Grahame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Kenneth | flat |
| 6 | both | both | ADV | _ | 7 loved | advmod |
| 7 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | hyperbole | hyperbole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 loved | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 understatement | cc |
| 10 | understatement | understatement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hyperbole | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 made | nsubj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 loved | conj |
| 15 | jokes | joke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 made | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 made | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | Lewis and Kenneth | hyperbole and understatement | both property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hyperbole=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | make | past | Lewis | jokes | out jokes = joke | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset joke=Product |
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:054-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad.lesson:0.
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): 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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