--- title: Victorian children often learned poems by heart and recited them sta… — Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket wa… · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 (heart, Alice, many poems), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:081-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps.lesson:13 # text = 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». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 081-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Victorian victorian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 often often ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 learned learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 poems poem NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 recited recite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 12 up up ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 poems poem NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 18 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Wonderland wonderland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 23 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 24 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 26 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 amod _ _ 27 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 poems poem NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 parataxis _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 33 like like ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 34 « « PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=40:punct 35 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 36 advmod _ _ 36 doth doth ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 38 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 39 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 bee bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 41 » » PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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](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: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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