Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps, sentence 15

Bathing machines were wooden huts on wheels that were pulled into the sea, so that people could change inside and step straight into the water without being seen.

Who acts: Bathing machines, people · What happens: be, pull, change, step, see · To what, where: wooden huts, wheels, sea, water

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 (Bathing machines, people), 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	Bathing	bathing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 machines	compound
2	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 huts	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 huts	cop
4	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 huts	amod
5	huts	hut	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 wheels	case
7	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 huts	nmod
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 pulled	nsubj:pass
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pulled	aux:pass
10	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 wheels	acl:relcl
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 sea	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pulled	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 change	punct
15	so	so	SCONJ	_	19 change	mark
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 change	mark
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 change	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 change	aux
19	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Bathing	advcl
20	inside	inside	ADV	_	19 change	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 step	cc
22	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 change	conj
23	straight	straight	ADV	_	26 water	advmod
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 water	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 water	det
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 step	obl
27	without	without	SCONJ	_	29 seen	mark
28	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 seen	aux:pass
29	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 step	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 huts	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Bathing machines	wooden huts	wheels		tree rules
2	pull	past · passive		wheels	the sea		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	change	could	people			inside property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	step	infinitive	people not said here		the water		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Destination
5	see	gerund · passive	people not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»

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:15.

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 ×3. 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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