Castles, knights and cathedrals, sentence 17
Lincoln Cathedral in England was probably the tallest building in the world for about 200 years, until its spire fell in 1548.
Who acts: Lincoln Cathedral, spire · What happens: be, fall · To what, where: tallest building, world, 1548
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 (Lincoln Cathedral, spire), 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 | Lincoln | Lincoln | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Cathedral | compound |
| 2 | Cathedral | Cathedral | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 building | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 England | case |
| 4 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Cathedral | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 building | cop |
| 6 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 9 building | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 building | det |
| 8 | tallest | tall | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 building | amod |
| 9 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 building | nmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 years | case |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 200 | advmod |
| 15 | 200 | 200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 years | nummod |
| 16 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 building | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fell | punct |
| 18 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 21 fell | mark |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 spire | nmod:poss |
| 20 | spire | spire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fell | nsubj |
| 21 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 building | advcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 1548 | case |
| 23 | 1548 | 1548 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 fell | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 building | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Lincoln Cathedral in England | the tallest building | the world | year | probably property | tree rules | |
| 2 | fall | past | world's spire | 1548 | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in 1548=Location |
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:17.
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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