--- title: In 1666 the Great Fire of London burned much of the City for four da… — Cities: why they grow, and how water and sewers… · tree and pragmatics description: In 1666 the Great Fire of London burned much of the City for four days; afterwards new buildings had to be of brick and stone, and fire insurance and fire brigades grew. Who acts: Great Fire, new buildings, fire insurance. 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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 (Great Fire, new buildings, fire insurance), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:073-cities-why-they-grow-and-how-sewers-made-them-safe.lesson:12 # text = In 1666 the Great Fire of London burned much of the City for four days; afterwards new buildings had to be of brick and stone, and fire insurance and fire brigades grew. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 073-cities-why-they-grow-and-how-sewers-made-them-safe.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1666 1666 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 Fire Fire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 burned burn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 City city NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 afterwards afterwards ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 18 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 buildings building NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 21 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 22 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 cop _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 brick brick NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 xcomp _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 insurance insurance NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 brigades brigade NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ _ 34 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **burn** | past | the Great Fire of London | much | | 1666 | day | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent much=Theme | | 2 | **have** | past | new buildings | | | | | afterwards *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | new buildings *not said here* | | | | | of brick and stone | tree rules | | 4 | **grow** | past | fire insurance and fire brigades | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:073-cities-why-they-grow-and-how-sewers-made-them-safe.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. 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