--- title: And poor Bill the Lizard is sent down the chimney, just as real smal… — Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket wa… · tree and pragmatics description: And poor Bill the Lizard is sent down the chimney, just as real small boys were sent up chimneys to clean them. A sentence of the lesson «Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/81-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/81-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps/) / 4 # Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps, sentence 4 And poor Bill the Lizard is sent down the chimney, just as real small boys were sent up chimneys to clean them. **What happens:** send down, send up, clean · **To what, where:** poor Bill, real small boys, boys This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps» of the history course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:4 # text = And poor Bill the Lizard is sent down the chimney, just as real small boys were sent up chimneys to clean them. # 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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:cc 2 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Bill Bill PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Lizard Lizard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 down down ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 chimney chimney NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 12 just just ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 13 as as SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 14 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 advcl _ _ 19 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 20 chimneys chimney NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 clean clean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:acl 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send down** | present · passive | | poor Bill | | | | down the chimney | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination chimney=Theme | | 2 | **send up** | past · passive | | real small boys | | | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination chimney=Theme | | 3 | **clean** | to-infinitive | | boys *= boy* | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | 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:4`. **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, R8-pos-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: [Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet,…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/81-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps/3/) - next →: [Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet,…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/81-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/81-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps/)