Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, caravans, steam trains, wash day and gold sovereigns, sentence 18

Many poorer women earned money as washerwomen, washing other families' clothes by hand; washing machines only became common in British homes in the 1950s and 1960s.

Who acts: Many poorer women · What happens: earn, wash, become · To what, where: money, clothes, washing machines

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 (Many poorer women), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 women	amod
2	poorer	poor	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 women	amod
3	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 earned	nsubj
4	earned	earn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 earned	obj
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 washerwomen	case
7	washerwomen	washerwoman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 earned	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 washing	punct
9	washing	wash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 earned	advcl
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 families	amod
11	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 clothes	nmod:poss
12	'	's	PART	_	11 families	case
13	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	9 washing	obj
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 hand	case
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 washing	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 became	punct
17	washing	wash	NOUN	_	18 machines	compound
18	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 became	nsubj:pass
19	only	only	ADV	_	20 became	advmod
20	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 earned	parataxis
21	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 became	xcomp
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 homes	case
23	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 homes	amod
24	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 common	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 1950s	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 1950s	det
27	1950s	1950	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	24 homes	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 1960s	cc
29	1960s	1960s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	27 1950s	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 earned	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	earn	past	Many poorer women	money	as washerwomen	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
2	wash	gerund	Many poorer women not said here	other families's clothes	by hand	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient
3	become	past · passive		washing machines	common property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

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:18.

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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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