Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, caravans, steam trains, wash day and gold sovereigns, sentence 14
Romany families had lived and travelled in painted horse-drawn wagons for many years, and in 1907 the Caravan Club was started in Britain, so caravan holidays for fun, like Toad's, were a new fashion.
Who acts: Romany families, caravan holidays · What happens: live, travel, paint, draw, start, be · To what, where: painted drawn wagons, Caravan Club, 1907, new fashion
This is a sentence of the lesson «Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, caravans, steam trains, wash day and gold sovereigns» 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 (Romany families, caravan holidays), 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 | Romany | romany | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 families | compound |
| 2 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lived | aux |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 travelled | cc |
| 6 | travelled | travel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 lived | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 wagons | case |
| 8 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 wagons | amod |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drawn | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 horse | punct |
| 11 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 wagons | amod |
| 12 | wagons | wagon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 travelled | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 years | case |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 years | amod |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 travelled | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 started | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 started | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 1907 | case |
| 19 | 1907 | 1907 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 started | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Club | det |
| 21 | Caravan | caravan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Club | compound |
| 22 | Club | club | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 started | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 started | aux:pass |
| 24 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 lived | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 Britain | case |
| 26 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 started | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 holidays | punct |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 41 fashion | advmod |
| 29 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 holidays | compound |
| 30 | holidays | holiday | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 fashion | nsubj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 fun | case |
| 32 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 holidays | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 fashion | punct |
| 34 | like | like | ADP | _ | 35 Toad | case |
| 35 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 holidays | nmod:poss |
| 36 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 35 Toad | case |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Toad | punct |
| 38 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 fashion | cop |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 fashion | det |
| 40 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 fashion | amod |
| 41 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lived | 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 | live | past · perfect | Romany families | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | travel | participle | Romany families not said here | painted drawn wagons | year | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wagon=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | paint | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | draw | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | start | past · passive | the Caravan Club | 1907 | in Britain | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | is a | past | Toad's caravan holidays for fun | a new fashion | tree rules |
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:083-toad-s-edwardian-england-early-motor-cars-caravans-steam-trains-wash-day-and-gold-sovereigns.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): R8-pos-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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