Dyes, inks and colouring, sentence 12
In 1856 William Perkin, aged 18, was trying to make a medicine and made the first cheap factory-made purple dye by accident.
Who acts: William Perkin · What happens: try, make · To what, where: 1856, medicine, first cheap made purple dye
This is a sentence of the lesson «Dyes, inks and colouring» of the chemistry 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 (William Perkin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1856 | case |
| 2 | 1856 | 1856 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 trying | obl |
| 3 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Perkin | compound |
| 4 | Perkin | perkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trying | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Perkin | punct |
| 6 | aged | aged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Perkin | amod |
| 7 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 aged | nummod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Perkin | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 trying | aux |
| 10 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 make | mark |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 trying | xcomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 medicine | det |
| 14 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 made | cc |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 trying | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 dye | det |
| 18 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 dye | amod |
| 19 | cheap | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 dye | amod |
| 20 | factory | factory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 factory | punct |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 dye | amod |
| 23 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 dye | amod |
| 24 | dye | dye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obj |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 accident | case |
| 26 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 trying | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past · progressive | William Perkin | 1856 | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | William Perkin not said here | a medicine | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset medicine=Product | ||||
| 3 | make | past | William Perkin not said here | the first cheap made purple dye | by accident | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dye=Product | |||
| 4 | make | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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, 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:chemistry:027-dyes-inks-colouring.lesson:12.
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): no change. 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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