Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908, sentence 16
Elizabeth Fry began visiting women prisoners in Newgate prison in London in 1813, taught them to sew and read, started a school for their children, and was later shown on the five-pound note.
Who acts: Elizabeth · What happens: begin, visit, teach, sew, read, start · To what, where: 1813, women prisoners, Newgate prison, prisoners, school, pound note
This is a sentence of the lesson «Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908» 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 (Elizabeth), 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 | Elizabeth | Elizabeth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 began | nsubj |
| 2 | Fry | Fry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Elizabeth | flat |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | visiting | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 began | xcomp |
| 5 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 prisoners | compound |
| 6 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 visiting | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 prison | case |
| 8 | Newgate | Newgate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 prison | compound |
| 9 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 visiting | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 London | case |
| 11 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 prison | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 1813 | case |
| 13 | 1813 | 1813 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 began | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 taught | punct |
| 15 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 taught | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 sew | mark |
| 18 | sew | sew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 taught | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 read | cc |
| 20 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sew | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 started | punct |
| 22 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 taught | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 school | det |
| 24 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 started | obj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 children | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 children | nmod:poss |
| 27 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 school | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 shown | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 shown | cc |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 shown | aux:pass |
| 31 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 32 shown | advmod |
| 32 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 began | conj |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 note | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 note | det |
| 35 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 pound | nummod |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 five | punct |
| 37 | pound | pound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 note | compound |
| 38 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 shown | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Elizabeth | 1813 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | visit | gerund | Elizabeth not said here | women prisoners | Newgate prison in London | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prisoner=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | teach speech: other | past | Elizabeth not said here | prisoners = prisoner | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | sew | to-infinitive | Elizabeth not said here | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | read | infinitive | Elizabeth not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | start | past | Elizabeth not said here | a school | for prisoners's children | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=Eventuality | |||
| 7 | show | past · passive | Elizabeth not said here | the pound note | late property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V» |
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:084-gaols-magistrates-and-old-punishments-from-the-stocks-to-the-children-act-of-1908.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 ×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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