Castles, knights and cathedrals, sentence 1

The lords lived in castles, first wooden forts on a mound and later stone giants with thick walls, towers, moats and drawbridges, but inside they were cold, smoky and busy, not fairy-tale palaces.

Who acts: lords · What happens: live, be · To what, where: castles, tale palaces

This is a sentence of the lesson «Castles, knights and cathedrals» 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 (lords), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lords	det
2	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lived	nsubj
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 castles	case
5	castles	castle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lived	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 forts	punct
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 forts	advmod
8	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 forts	amod
9	forts	fort	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 castles	appos
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 mound	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 mound	det
12	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 forts	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 giants	cc
14	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 stone	advmod
15	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 giants	compound
16	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 forts	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 walls	case
18	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 walls	amod
19	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 giants	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 towers	punct
21	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 walls	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 moats	punct
23	moats	moat	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 walls	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 drawbridges	cc
25	drawbridges	drawbridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 walls	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 cold	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 cold	cc
28	inside	inside	ADV	_	31 cold	advmod
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 cold	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 cold	cop
31	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lived	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 smoky	punct
33	smoky	smoky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 cold	conj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 busy	cc
35	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 cold	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 palaces	punct
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 palaces	advmod
38	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 tale	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 fairy	punct
40	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 palaces	compound
41	palaces	palace	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 smoky	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past	the lords		castles		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location
2	is	past	lords = lord			cold, inside property	tree rules
3	be		lords = lord not said here	tale palaces			tree rules
4	be		lords = lord not said here				tree rules

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:history:021-castles-knights-and-cathedrals.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.

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