Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, caravans, steam trains, wash day and gold sovereigns, sentence 16

A steam engine had a driver and a fireman, who shovelled coal into the firebox, and a guard who waved a flag and blew a whistle to start the train; riding on the engine, as Toad does, was against the rules.

Who acts: steam engine, driver, guard, Toad, riding · What happens: have, shovel, wave, blow, start, ride · To what, where: driver, coal, firebox, flag, whistle, train

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 (steam engine, driver, guard, Toad), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 engine	det
2	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 engine	compound
3	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 driver	det
6	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fireman	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fireman	det
9	fireman	fireman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 driver	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shovelled	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 shovelled	nsubj
12	shovelled	shovel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 driver	acl:relcl
13	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shovelled	obj
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 firebox	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 firebox	det
16	firebox	firebox	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shovelled	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 guard	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 guard	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 guard	det
20	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 driver	conj
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 waved	nsubj
22	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 guard	acl:relcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 flag	det
24	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 waved	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 blew	cc
26	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 waved	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 whistle	det
28	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 blew	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 start	mark
30	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 blew	advcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 train	det
32	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 start	obj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 riding	punct
34	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 rules	csubj
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 engine	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 engine	det
37	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 riding	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 rules	punct
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	41 does	mark
40	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 does	nsubj
41	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 rules	advcl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 does	punct
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 rules	cop
44	against	against	ADP	_	46 rules	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 rules	det
46	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	parataxis
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	a steam engine	a driver and a fireman and a guard			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent driver=Patient
2	shovel	past	a driver and a fireman and a guard	coal	the firebox		vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent coal=Theme into firebox=Destination
3	wave	past	a guard	a flag			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flag=Patient
4	blow	past	a guard not said here	a whistle			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent whistle=Patient
5	start	to-infinitive	a guard not said here	the train			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent train=Eventuality
6	ride	gerund			the engine		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
7	do	present	Toad				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is	past	riding			against the rules	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:16.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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