Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, caravans, steam trains, wash day and gold sovereigns, sentence 4
Before the car, Toad tries a horse-drawn caravan holiday, which was also a new fashion: the first caravan club in Britain was started the year before the book came out.
Who acts: Toad, drawn caravan holiday, new fashion, book · What happens: try, draw, be, start, come out · To what, where: drawn caravan holiday, new fashion, first caravan club
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 (Toad, drawn caravan holiday, new fashion, book), 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 | ADP | _ | 3 car | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 car | det |
| 3 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tries | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 car | punct |
| 5 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 tries | nsubj |
| 6 | tries | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 holiday | det |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drawn | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 drawn | punct |
| 10 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 holiday | amod |
| 11 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 holiday | compound |
| 12 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tries | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fashion | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 fashion | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 fashion | cop |
| 16 | also | also | ADV | _ | 19 fashion | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fashion | det |
| 18 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fashion | amod |
| 19 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 holiday | acl:relcl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 started | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 club | det |
| 22 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 club | amod |
| 23 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 club | compound |
| 24 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 started | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 Britain | case |
| 26 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 club | nmod |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 started | aux:pass |
| 28 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 fashion | acl:relcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 year | det |
| 30 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 started | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 34 came | mark |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 book | det |
| 33 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 came | nsubj |
| 34 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 started | advcl |
| 35 | out | out | ADV | _ | 34 came | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tries | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | present | Toad | a drawn caravan holiday | before the car | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holiday=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | draw | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | a drawn caravan holiday | a new fashion | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | start | past · passive | a new fashion not said here | the first caravan club in Britain | year | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | come out | past | the book | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
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:4.
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): 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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