--- title: Before the car, Toad tries a horse-drawn caravan holiday, which was… — Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, cara… · tree and pragmatics description: Before the car, Toad tries a horse-drawn caravan holiday, which was also a new fashion: the first caravan club in Britain was started the year before the book came out. Who acts: Toad, drawn caravan holiday, new fashion, book. 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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 (Toad, drawn caravan holiday, new fashion, book), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:083-toad-s-edwardian-england-early-motor-cars-caravans-steam-trains-wash-day-and-gold-sovereigns.lesson:4 # text = Before the car, Toad tries a horse-drawn caravan holiday, which was also a new fashion: the first caravan club in Britain was started the year before the book came out. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 083-toad-s-edwardian-england-early-motor-cars-caravans-steam-trains-wash-day-and-gold-sovereigns.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Before before ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 tries try VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 8 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 10 drawn draw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ _ 11 caravan caravan NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 holiday holiday NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 16 also also ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 fashion fashion NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 acl:relcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:appos 20 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 24 amod _ _ 23 caravan caravan NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 club club NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 started start VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl:relcl _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl:unmarked _ _ 31 before before SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 35 out out ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | present | Toad | a drawn caravan holiday | | | before the car | | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holiday=Eventuality | | 2 | **draw** | participle | | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | past | a drawn caravan holiday | a new fashion | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **start** | past · passive | a new fashion *not said here* | the first caravan club in Britain | | | year | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 5 | **come out** | past | the book | | | | | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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. 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