--- title: Many middle-class Victorian families had at least one servant, such… — Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket wa… · tree and pragmatics description: Many middle-class Victorian families had at least one servant, such as a housemaid, a cook or a gardener, and rich ones had footmen who opened doors and served at table. Who acts: Many class Victorian families, rich ones, footmen. 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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 (Many class Victorian families, rich ones, footmen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:081-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps.lesson:12 # text = Many middle-class Victorian families had at least one servant, such as a housemaid, a cook or a gardener, and rich ones had footmen who opened doors and served at table. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 081-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps.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 ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 2 middle middle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 Victorian victorian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 10 nmod _ _ 10 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 16 case _ _ 14 as as ADP IN _ 13 fixed _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 housemaid housemaid NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 cook cook NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 gardener gardener NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 28 footmen footman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 31 doors door NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 served serve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 34 at at ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | Many class Victorian families | one servant or a gardener | | | | such a housemaid and a cook | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Patient | | 2 | **have** | past | rich ones | footmen | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footman=Patient | | 3 | **open** | past | footmen | doors | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | | 4 | **serve** | past | footmen *not said here* | | | table | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | 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:081-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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