Castles, knights and cathedrals, sentence 11
The story that knights had to be lifted onto horses by cranes is a myth.
Who acts: knights, story · What happens: have, lift, be · To what, where: story, myth
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 (knights, story), 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 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 myth | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 had | mark |
| 4 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 story | acl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 lifted | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 lifted | aux:pass |
| 8 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 had | xcomp |
| 9 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 10 horses | case |
| 10 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lifted | obl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 cranes | case |
| 12 | cranes | crane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lifted | obl |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 myth | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 myth | det |
| 15 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 myth | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | knights | the story not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lift | to-infinitive · passive | the story not said here | onto horses; by cranes | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: onto horse=Destination by crane=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the story | a myth | 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:11.
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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