--- title: «The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours» plays on «mi… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Moc… · tree and pragmatics description: «The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours» plays on «mine», a hole you dig minerals from, and «mine», belonging to me. Who acts: you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:017-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1.lesson:22 # text = «The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours» plays on «mine», a hole you dig minerals from, and «mine», belonging to me. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 017-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 advmod _ _ 4 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 5 expl _ _ 5 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 mine mine PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 12 advmod _ _ 11 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 12 expl _ _ 12 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 nsubj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 yours yours PRON PRP Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 16 plays play VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 « « PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 mine mine PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 20 » » PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 dig dig VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 minerals mineral NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=23:punct 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 « « PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 31 mine mine PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 conj _ _ 32 » » PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 34 belonging belong VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 acl _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** *in a quote* | present | | | | there | | of the Duchess *= duchess* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **be** *in a quote* | present | | | | there | | of yours; less *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **play** | present | | | | | | on mine | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **dig from** | present | you | minerals | | | | | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mineral=Theme | | 5 | **belong** | gerund | | | me | | | | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:017-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1.lesson:22`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/17-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1/19/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part…, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/17-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1/25/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/17-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1/)