Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps, sentence 12

Many middle-class Victorian families had at least one servant, such as a housemaid, a cook or a gardener, and rich ones had footmen who opened doors and served at table.

Who acts: Many class Victorian families, rich ones, footmen · What happens: have, open, serve · To what, where: one servant, footmen, doors, table

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 (Many class Victorian families, rich ones, footmen), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 families	amod
2	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 class	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 middle	punct
4	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 families	compound
5	Victorian	victorian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 families	amod
6	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 least	case
9	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 one	nmod
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 servant	nummod
11	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 housemaid	punct
13	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	16 housemaid	case
14	as	as	ADP	_	13 such	fixed
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 housemaid	det
16	housemaid	housemaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 servant	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cook	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 cook	det
19	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 housemaid	conj
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 gardener	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 gardener	det
22	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 servant	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 ones	cc
25	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 ones	amod
26	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 had	conj
28	footmen	footman	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 had	obj
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 opened	nsubj
30	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 footmen	acl:relcl
31	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 opened	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 served	cc
33	served	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 opened	conj
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 table	case
35	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 served	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Many class Victorian families	one servant or a gardener		such a housemaid and a cook	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Patient
2	have	past	rich ones	footmen			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footman=Patient
3	open	past	footmen	doors			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
4	serve	past	footmen not said here		table		vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent

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: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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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