--- title: Knowing these things turns the jokes back on: the book was laughing… — Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket wa… · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of the lesson «Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps» of the history course --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/81-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/81-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps/) / 5 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:081-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps.lesson:5 # text = 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. # 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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Knowing know VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 csubj _ _ 2 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 jokes joke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 back back ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 8 on on ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 laughing laugh VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 14 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 16 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 amod _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 18 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=16:compound 19 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 lessons lesson NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 manners manners NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 21 conj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ _ 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod 29 . . 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 | **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](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: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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