Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, caravans, steam trains, wash day and gold sovereigns, sentence 17
Before washing machines, Monday was usually wash day: clothes were boiled in a big tub called a copper, scrubbed on a washboard, squeezed through a mangle with two rollers and pressed with heavy irons heated on the stove.
Who acts: Monday, big tub · What happens: wash, be, boil, call, scrub, squeeze · To what, where: machines, wash day, clothes, copper, washboard, mangle · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Monday, big tub), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 2 washing | mark |
| 2 | washing | wash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 day | advcl |
| 3 | machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 washing | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 washing | punct |
| 5 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 day | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 day | cop |
| 7 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 9 day | advmod |
| 8 | wash | wash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 day | compound |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 boiled | punct |
| 11 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 13 boiled | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 boiled | aux:pass |
| 13 | boiled | boil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 day | parataxis |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 tub | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tub | det |
| 16 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tub | amod |
| 17 | tub | tub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 boiled | obl |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 tub | acl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 copper | det |
| 20 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 called | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 scrubbed | punct |
| 22 | scrubbed | scrub | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 copper | acl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 washboard | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 washboard | det |
| 25 | washboard | washboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 scrubbed | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 squeezed | punct |
| 27 | squeezed | squeeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 washboard | acl |
| 28 | through | through | ADP | _ | 30 mangle | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 mangle | det |
| 30 | mangle | mangle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 squeezed | obl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 rollers | case |
| 32 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 rollers | nummod |
| 33 | rollers | roller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 mangle | nmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 pressed | cc |
| 35 | pressed | press | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 squeezed | conj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 irons | case |
| 37 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 irons | amod |
| 38 | irons | iron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 pressed | obl |
| 39 | heated | heat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 irons | acl |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 stove | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 stove | det |
| 42 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 heated | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 day | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash | gerund | Monday not said here | machines | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent machine=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Monday | wash day | usually property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | boil | past · passive | clothes | in a big tub | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient in tub=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | call | participle | a big tub not said here | a copper | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent copper=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | scrub | participle | a copper not said here | a washboard | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | squeeze | participle | a washboard not said here | a mangle with two rollers | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through mangle=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | press | participle | with heavy irons | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | heat | participle | heavy irons not said here | on the stove | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient on stove=Instrument |
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:17.
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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