--- title: Carroll often takes a big saying and makes it really happen; Grahame… — Off with her head and the finest house on the ri… · tree and pragmatics description: Carroll often takes a big saying and makes it really happen; Grahame gives us Toad, the greatest boaster on the river bank. Who acts: Carroll, saying, Grahame. 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 scho --- [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/1/) [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/) / 1 # Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad, sentence 1 Carroll often takes a big saying and makes it really happen; Grahame gives us Toad, the greatest boaster on the river bank. **Who acts:** Carroll, saying, Grahame · **What happens:** take, make, happen, give · **To what, where:** big saying, saying, Toad, us 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 (Carroll, saying, Grahame), 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:1 # text = Carroll often takes a big saying and makes it really happen; Grahame gives us Toad, the greatest boaster on the river bank. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Carroll Carroll PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 often often ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 saying saying NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 really really ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 Grahame Grahame PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 15 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 iobj _ _ 16 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 20 amod _ _ 20 boaster boaster NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 appos _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 24 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:nmod|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | present | Carroll | a big saying | | | | often *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saying=Theme | | 2 | **make** | present | Carroll *not said here* | saying | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **happen** | infinitive | saying *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **give** | present | Grahame | Toad | us | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient toad=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:language:054-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad.lesson:1`. **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, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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: [Off with her head and the finest house…, 0](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/) - next →: [Off with her head and the finest house…, 3](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/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](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/)