Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps, sentence 4
And poor Bill the Lizard is sent down the chimney, just as real small boys were sent up chimneys to clean them.
What happens: send down, send up, clean · To what, where: poor Bill, real small boys, boys
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sent | cc |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Bill | amod |
| 3 | Bill | Bill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Lizard | det |
| 5 | Lizard | Lizard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Bill | appos |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sent | aux:pass |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 chimney | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chimney | det |
| 10 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sent | punct |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 18 sent | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 sent | mark |
| 14 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 boys | amod |
| 15 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 boys | amod |
| 16 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sent | aux:pass |
| 18 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sent | advcl |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 sent | compound:prt |
| 20 | chimneys | chimney | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sent | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 clean | mark |
| 22 | clean | clean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sent | advcl |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 clean | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send down | present · passive | poor Bill | down the chimney | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination chimney=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send up | past · passive | real small boys | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination chimney=Theme | |||||
| 3 | clean | to-infinitive | boys = boy | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=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:4.
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 ×3, 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.
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