--- title: The lords lived in castles, first wooden forts on a mound and later… — Castles, knights and cathedrals · tree and pragmatics description: The lords lived in castles, first wooden forts on a mound and later stone giants with thick walls, towers, moats and drawbridges, but inside they were cold, smoky and busy, not fairy-tale palaces. Who acts: lords. 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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 (lords), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:021-castles-knights-and-cathedrals.lesson:1 # text = The lords lived in castles, first wooden forts on a mound and later stone giants with thick walls, towers, moats and drawbridges, but inside they were cold, smoky and busy, not fairy-tale palaces. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 021-castles-knights-and-cathedrals.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 lords lord NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 castles castle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 9 advmod _ _ 8 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 forts fort NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 appos _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 mound mound NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 15 advmod _ _ 15 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 16 giants giant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 towers tower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 moats moat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 drawbridges drawbridge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct 27 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 inside inside ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=31:punct 33 smoky smoky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 conj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=33:conj 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 38 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ _ 40 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 palaces palace NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | past | the lords | | | castles | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location | | 2 | **is** | past | lords *= lord* | | | | | cold, inside *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | lords *= lord* *not said here* | tale palaces | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | lords *= lord* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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:history:021-castles-knights-and-cathedrals.lesson:1`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Castles, knights and cathedrals, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals/0/) - next →: [Castles, knights and cathedrals, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals/)