--- title: Picture a castle in a cartoon under siege: in real life the attacker… — Castles, knights and cathedrals · tree and pragmatics description: Picture a castle in a cartoon under siege: in real life the attackers more often just waited for weeks until the defenders ran out of food, and from the 1400s cannons began to smash even the thickest walls. Who acts: you, attackers, defenders, 1400s. 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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 (you, attackers, defenders, 1400s), 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:3 # text = Picture a castle in a cartoon under siege: in real life the attackers more often just waited for weeks until the defenders ran out of food, and from the 1400s cannons began to smash even the thickest walls. # 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): R5-strong ×3 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 cartoon cartoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 under under ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 siege siege NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:obl 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 attackers attacker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 15 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 16 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod 16 often often ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 17 just just ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 waited wait VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 21 until until SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 defenders defender NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 25 out out ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 30 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 1400s 1400 NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 33 cannons cannon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:conj 34 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 smash smash VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 37 even even ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 thickest thick ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 40 amod _ _ 40 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a castle | | a cartoon under siege | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent castle=Theme | | 2 | **wait** | past | the attackers | | | real life | week | often *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in life=Location | | 3 | **run** | past | the defenders | | | food | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out food=Trajectory | | 4 | **begin** | past | the 1400s | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **smash** | to-infinitive | the 1400s *not said here* | the thickest walls | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Theme | 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:3`. **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 ×3. **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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals/2/) - next →: [Castles, knights and cathedrals, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals/)