--- title: The Duchess twists the proverb «Take care of the pence and the pound… — Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 (Duchess, pounds, sounds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:041-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense.lesson:14 # text = 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». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 041-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Duchess Duchess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 twists twist VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 proverb proverb NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 Take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 appos _ _ 8 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 pence pence NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 pounds pound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 15 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 17 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 16 obl _ _ 20 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 21 into into ADP IN _ 23 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:case 22 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 23 Take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 obl _ _ 24 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 sense sense NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nmod 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 32 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 34 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 33 obl _ _ 37 » » PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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](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: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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