Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps, sentence 14

Small boys, called climbing boys, were sent up inside chimneys to brush out the soot; it was cruel and dangerous, and a law of 1875 finally stopped it.

Who acts: Small boys, soot, law · What happens: call, climb, send up, brush out, be, stop · To what, where: climbing boys, Small boys, chimneys, soot · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Small boys, soot, law), 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	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 boys	amod
2	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sent	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct
4	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 boys	acl
5	climbing	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 boys	amod
6	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 called	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 boys	punct
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sent	aux:pass
9	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 sent	compound:prt
11	inside	inside	ADP	_	12 chimneys	case
12	chimneys	chimney	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sent	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 brush	mark
14	brush	brush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sent	advcl
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 brush	compound:prt
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 soot	det
17	soot	soot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 brush	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 cruel	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 cruel	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 cruel	cop
21	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sent	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 dangerous	cc
23	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 cruel	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 stopped	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 stopped	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 law	det
27	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stopped	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 1875	case
29	1875	1875	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	27 law	nmod
30	finally	finally	ADV	_	31 stopped	advmod
31	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sent	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 stopped	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sent	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	participle	Small boys not said here	climbing boys			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	climb	gerund					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	send up	past · passive		Small boys	chimneys		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	brush out	to-infinitive		the soot			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent soot=Theme
5	is	past	soot			cruel property	tree rules
6	be		soot not said here				tree rules
7	stop	past	a law of 1875	soot		finally property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality

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:14.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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