--- title: "From a Railway Carriage", the train poem, was written by Robert Lou… — Poetry: rhyme and rhythm · tree and pragmatics description: "From a Railway Carriage", the train poem, was written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published in 1885; "No cap" in slang means "for real". Who acts: Robert, cap. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Robert, cap), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:045-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm.lesson:16 # text = "From a Railway Carriage", the train poem, was written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published in 1885; "No cap" in slang means "for real". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 045-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 2 From from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 Railway railway PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 Carriage carriage PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 train train NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 poem poem NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Robert Robert PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl:agent _ _ 16 Louis Louis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 flat _ _ 17 Stevenson Stevenson PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 flat _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 published publish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 1885 1885 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 24 No no DET DT PronType=Neg 25 det _ _ 25 cap cap NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:obl 29 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 31 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:obj 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | past · passive | Robert | | | a Railway Carriage | | | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent from carriage=Material | | 2 | **publish** | participle | Robert *not said here* | | | 1885 | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | present | no cap in slang | | | | | for real | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot for real=Attribute | 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:english:045-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Poetry: rhyme and rhythm, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm/15/) - next →: [Poetry: simile, metaphor, personificat…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm/)