Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps, sentence 3

There are servants everywhere: the Rabbit's housemaid Mary Ann, his gardener Pat, the Duchess's cook and the Frog-Footman who should open doors.

Who acts: servants, Frog Footman · What happens: be, open · To what, where: doors

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 (servants, Frog Footman), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
4	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 are	advmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 Mary	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Rabbit	det
7	Rabbit	rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 housemaid	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Rabbit	case
9	housemaid	housemaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Mary	nmod:desc
10	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 servants	appos
11	Ann	Ann	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Mary	flat
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gardener	punct
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 gardener	nmod:poss
14	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Mary	conj
15	Pat	Pat	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Mary	flat
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cook	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Duchess	det
18	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 cook	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 Duchess	case
20	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Mary	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 Footman	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Footman	det
23	Frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Footman	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 Footman	punct
25	Footman	footman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Mary	conj
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 open	nsubj
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 open	aux
28	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 Footman	acl:relcl
29	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 open	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	servants			there		everywhere property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	open	should	the Frog Footman	doors					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=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:081-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps.lesson:3.

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 ×2, R8-pos-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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/81-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps/3/