--- title: Lewis Carroll and Kenneth Grahame both loved hyperbole and understat… — Off with her head and the finest house on the ri… · tree and pragmatics description: Lewis Carroll and Kenneth Grahame both loved hyperbole and understatement, and they made jokes out of them. Who acts: Lewis. 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 with its dependency tree and the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/0/) [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/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [Off with her head and the finest house…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/) / 0 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:054-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad.lesson:0 # text = Lewis Carroll and Kenneth Grahame both loved hyperbole and understatement, and they made jokes out of them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 054-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Lewis Lewis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 2 Carroll Carroll PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:appos 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 Kenneth Kenneth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 5 Grahame Grahame PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ _ 6 both both ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 hyperbole hyperbole NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 understatement understatement NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 15 jokes joke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 out out ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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](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: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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