Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps, sentence 10

Croquet is a lawn game in which players hit wooden balls with long wooden mallets through small hoops pushed into the grass; it became hugely popular in England in the 1860s.

Who acts: Croquet, players · What happens: be, hit, push, become · To what, where: lawn game, wooden balls, small hoops, grass

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps» 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 (Croquet, players), 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	Croquet	croquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 game	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 game	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 game	det
4	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 game	compound
5	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 hit	obl
8	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hit	nsubj
9	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 game	acl:relcl
10	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 balls	amod
11	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hit	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 mallets	case
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 mallets	amod
14	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 mallets	amod
15	mallets	mallet	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hit	obl
16	through	through	ADP	_	18 hoops	case
17	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hoops	amod
18	hoops	hoop	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hit	obl
19	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 hoops	acl
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 grass	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 grass	det
22	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pushed	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 became	punct
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 became	nsubj
25	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 game	parataxis
26	hugely	hugely	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 popular	advmod
27	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 became	xcomp
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 England	case
29	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 popular	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 1860s	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 1860s	det
32	1860s	1860s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	27 popular	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 game	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Croquet	a lawn game			tree rules
2	hit	past	players	wooden balls	a lawn game	with long wooden mallets; through small hoops	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent ball=Patient with mallet=Instrument
3	push	participle		small hoops not said here	the grass		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into grass=Destination
4	become	past	Croquet			popular property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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:081-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps.lesson:10.

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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