--- title: In "Ye Olde Tea Shoppe" the Y stands for an old letter called thorn… — Where English came from · tree and pragmatics description: In "Ye Olde Tea Shoppe" the Y stands for an old letter called thorn (þ), which made a "th" sound, so people always said "the". Who acts: Y, old letter, people. A sentence of the lesson «Where English came from» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/22-where-english-came-from/16/) [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/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [Where English came from](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/22-where-english-came-from/) / 16 # Where English came from, sentence 16 In "Ye Olde Tea Shoppe" the Y stands for an old letter called thorn (þ), which made a "th" sound, so people always said "the". **Who acts:** Y, old letter, people · **What happens:** stand, call, make, say · **To what, where:** Ye Tea Shoppe, thorn, th sound, the · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Where English came from» of the language 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 (Y, old letter, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:022-where-english-came-from.lesson:16 # text = In "Ye Olde Tea Shoppe" the Y stands for an old letter called thorn (þ), which made a "th" sound, so people always said "the". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 022-where-english-came-from.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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 3 Ye Ye PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 4 Olde Olde PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ 5 Tea Tea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 Shoppe shoppe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Y Y PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 16 thorn thorn NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 xcomp _ _ 17 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 18 þ þ NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 appos _ _ 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:acl:relcl 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 25 th th NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 30 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 31 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 32 advmod _ _ 32 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 33 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:det 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct 36 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | present | the Y | | | Ye Tea Shoppe | | for a old letter | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shoppe=Location | | 2 | **call** | participle | a old letter *not said here* | thorn | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **make** | past | a old letter | a th sound | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | people | the | | | | always *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent the=Topic | 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:language:022-where-english-came-from.lesson:16`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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: [Where English came from, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/22-where-english-came-from/15/) - next →: [Where English came from, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/22-where-english-came-from/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/22-where-english-came-from/)