Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908, sentence 5
Reformers like Elizabeth Fry visited prisoners and showed that people could be helped to change.
Who acts: Reformers, people · What happens: visit, show, help, change · To what, where: prisoners, people · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Reformers, people), 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 | Reformers | reformer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 visited | nsubj |
| 2 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 Fry | case |
| 3 | Elizabeth | Elizabeth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Fry | compound |
| 4 | Fry | Fry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Reformers | nmod |
| 5 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 visited | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 showed | cc |
| 8 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 visited | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 helped | mark |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 helped | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 helped | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 helped | aux:pass |
| 13 | helped | help | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 showed | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 change | mark |
| 15 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 helped | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 visited | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | past | Reformers like Elizabeth Fry | prisoners | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prisoner=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | show | past | Reformers like Elizabeth Fry not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | help | could · passive | people | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | change | to-infinitive | people not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: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): no change. 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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