Cities: why they grow, and how water and sewers made them safe, sentence 12

In 1666 the Great Fire of London burned much of the City for four days; afterwards new buildings had to be of brick and stone, and fire insurance and fire brigades grew.

Who acts: Great Fire, new buildings, fire insurance · What happens: burn, have, be, grow · To what, where: much, 1666

This is a sentence of the lesson «Cities: why they grow, and how water and sewers made them safe» 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 (Great Fire, new buildings, fire insurance), 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 1666	case
2	1666	1666	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 burned	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Fire	det
4	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Fire	amod
5	Fire	Fire	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 burned	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 London	case
7	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Fire	nmod
8	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 burned	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 City	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 City	det
12	City	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 much	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 days	case
14	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 days	nummod
15	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 burned	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
17	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	20 had	advmod
18	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 buildings	amod
19	buildings	building	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 burned	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	24 brick	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 brick	cop
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 brick	case
24	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	xcomp
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 stone	cc
26	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 brick	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 grew	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 insurance	cc
29	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 insurance	compound
30	insurance	insurance	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 grew	nsubj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 brigades	cc
32	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 brigades	compound
33	brigades	brigade	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 insurance	conj
34	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 burned	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 burned	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past	the Great Fire of London	much	1666	day		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent much=Theme
2	have	past	new buildings				afterwards property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	to-infinitive	new buildings not said here				of brick and stone	tree rules
4	grow	past	fire insurance and fire brigades					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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, 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:073-cities-why-they-grow-and-how-sewers-made-them-safe.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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