--- title: In 1856 William Perkin, aged 18, was trying to make a medicine and m… — Dyes, inks and colouring · tree and pragmatics description: In 1856 William Perkin, aged 18, was trying to make a medicine and made the first cheap factory-made purple dye by accident. Who acts: William Perkin. A sentence of the lesson «Dyes, inks and colouring» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/27-dyes-inks-colouring/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Chemistry](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/) / [Dyes, inks and colouring](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/27-dyes-inks-colouring/) / 12 # Dyes, inks and colouring, sentence 12 In 1856 William Perkin, aged 18, was trying to make a medicine and made the first cheap factory-made purple dye by accident. **Who acts:** William Perkin · **What happens:** try, make · **To what, where:** 1856, medicine, first cheap made purple dye This is a sentence of the lesson «Dyes, inks and colouring» of the chemistry 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 (William Perkin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chemistry:027-dyes-inks-colouring.lesson:12 # text = In 1856 William Perkin, aged 18, was trying to make a medicine and made the first cheap factory-made purple dye by accident. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chemistry # lesson = 027-dyes-inks-colouring.lesson # annotation = 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 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1856 1856 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 obl _ _ 3 William William PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Perkin perkin NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 aged aged ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 7 18 18 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 trying try VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 18 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 24 amod _ _ 19 cheap cheap ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 20 factory factory NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ _ 22 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 amod _ _ 23 purple purple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 dye dye NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 25 by by ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 accident accident NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | past · progressive | William Perkin | | | 1856 | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | William Perkin *not said here* | a medicine | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset medicine=Product | | 3 | **make** | past | William Perkin *not said here* | the first cheap made purple dye | | | | by accident | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dye=Product | | 4 | **make** | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:chemistry:027-dyes-inks-colouring.lesson:12`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Dyes, inks and colouring, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/27-dyes-inks-colouring/11/) - next →: [Dyes, inks and colouring, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/27-dyes-inks-colouring/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/27-dyes-inks-colouring/)