Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps, sentence 9

Afternoon tea, with tea, bread and butter and cakes between lunch and a late dinner, is said to have been made fashionable in the 1840s by Anna, Duchess of Bedford; the tea came by ship from China and later from India.

Who acts: Anna, tea · What happens: say, make, come · To what, where: Afternoon tea, 1840s, China · 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 (Anna, tea), 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	Afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tea	compound
2	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tea	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 tea	case
5	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tea	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bread	punct
7	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tea	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 butter	cc
9	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bread	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 cakes	cc
11	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 butter	conj
12	between	between	ADP	_	13 lunch	case
13	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cakes	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 dinner	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 dinner	det
16	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 dinner	amod
17	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lunch	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 tea	punct
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 said	aux:pass
20	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
21	to	to	PART	_	24 made	mark
22	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 made	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 made	aux:pass
24	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 said	xcomp
25	fashionable	fashionable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 made	xcomp
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 1840s	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 1840s	det
28	1840s	1840	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	24 made	obl
29	by	by	ADP	_	30 Anna	case
30	Anna	Anna	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 made	obl:agent
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Duchess	punct
32	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Anna	appos
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 Bedford	case
34	Bedford	Bedford	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Duchess	nmod
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 came	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 tea	det
37	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 came	nsubj
38	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 said	parataxis
39	by	by	ADP	_	40 ship	case
40	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 came	obl
41	from	from	ADP	_	42 China	case
42	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 came	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 later	cc
44	later	later	ADV	Degree=Cmp	38 came	advmod
45	from	from	ADP	_	46 India	case
46	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 later	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · passive		Afternoon tea with tea and bread and butter and cakes between lunch and a late dinner			tree rules
2	make	to-infinitive · perfect · passive	Anna		the 1840s	fashionable property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	the tea		China	by ship; later property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from china=Initial_Location

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:9.

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 ×2, 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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