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title: Afternoon tea, with tea, bread and butter and cakes between lunch an… — Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket wa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Afternoon tea, with tea, bread and butter and cakes between lunch and a late dinner, is said to have been made fashionable in the 1840s by Anna, Duchess of Bedford; the tea came by ship from China and later from India. Who acts: Anna, tea. A sentence of the lesson «Alice's Victorian world: tea, croq
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# Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps, sentence 9

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Afternoon tea, with tea, bread and butter and cakes between lunch and a late dinner, is said to have been made fashionable in the 1840s by Anna, Duchess of Bedford; the tea came by ship from China and later from India.

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**Who acts:** Anna, tea · **What happens:** say, make, come · **To what, where:** Afternoon tea, 1840s, China · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: who acts (Anna, tea), 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:9
# text = Afternoon tea, with tea, bread and butter and cakes between lunch and a late dinner, is said to have been made fashionable in the 1840s by Anna, Duchess of Bedford; the tea came by ship from China and later from India.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:appos
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	between	between	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux	_	_
23	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	xcomp	_	_
25	fashionable	fashionable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	1840s	1840	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Anna	Anna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl:agent	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Bedford	Bedford	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
39	by	by	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
41	from	from	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:nmod
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	later	later	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	38	advmod	_	_
45	from	from	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | Afternoon tea with tea and bread and butter and cakes between lunch and a late dinner |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive · perfect · passive | Anna |  |  | the 1840s |  | fashionable *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | past | the tea |  |  | China |  | by ship; later *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from china=Initial\_Location |

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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.

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**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 ×2, 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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