Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, caravans, steam trains, wash day and gold sovereigns, sentence 5
Toad escapes from prison on a steam engine, dressed as a washerwoman, with no money in his pocket, and pays a gipsy in shillings for breakfast.
Who acts: Toad · What happens: escape, dress, pay · To what, where: prison, gipsy, shillings
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), 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 | Toad | toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 escapes | nsubj |
| 2 | escapes | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 prison | case |
| 4 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 escapes | obl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 engine | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 engine | det |
| 7 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 engine | compound |
| 8 | engine | engine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 escapes | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dressed | punct |
| 10 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 escapes | advcl |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 washerwoman | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 washerwoman | det |
| 13 | washerwoman | washerwoman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dressed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 money | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 money | case |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 money | det |
| 17 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dressed | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 pocket | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 20 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 money | nmod | ||
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 pays | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 pays | cc |
| 23 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 escapes | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 gipsy | det |
| 25 | gipsy | gipsy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pays | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 shillings | case |
| 27 | shillings | shilling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 pays | obl |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 breakfast | case |
| 29 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pays | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 escapes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | present | Toad | prison | on a steam engine | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from prison=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | dress | participle | Toad not said here | as a washerwoman; with no money in Toad's pocket | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | pay | present | Toad not said here | a gipsy | shillings | for breakfast | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent gipsy=Asset for breakfast=Theme |
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:5.
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. 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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