--- title: The printer William Caxton told a story from the 1400s: a woman in t… — Borrowed words: French, Norse and Latin · tree and pragmatics description: The printer William Caxton told a story from the 1400s: a woman in the south did not understand a man asking for "eggys", but understood "eyren", the southern English word; in the end "eggs" won. Who acts: printer, woman, man, eggs. 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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 (printer, woman, man, eggs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:023-borrowed-words-french-norse-and-latin.lesson:9 # text = The printer William Caxton told a story from the 1400s: a woman in the south did not understand a man asking for "eggys", but understood "eyren", the southern English word; in the end "eggs" won. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 023-borrowed-words-french-norse-and-latin.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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 printer printer NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 William William PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 4 Caxton Caxton PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ 5 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 1400s 1400 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 7 nmod _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 south south NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 acl _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 25 eggys eggy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 understood understand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 31 eyren eyren NOUN NN _ 29 obj _ _ 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 35 southern southern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 36 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 37 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 appos _ _ 38 ; ; PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 42 " " PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ _ 43 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nsubj _ _ 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 43 punct _ _ 45 won win VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the printer | a story | | the 1400s | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | | 2 | **not** **understand** | past · do-support | a woman in the south | a man | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | a man *not said here* | | | | | for eggys | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **understand** | past | a woman in the south *not said here* | eyren | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer eyren=Stimulus | | 5 | **win** | past | eggs | | | | in the end | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in end=Eventuality | 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:023-borrowed-words-french-norse-and-latin.lesson:9`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Borrowed words: French, Norse and Latin, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/23-borrowed-words-french-norse-and-latin/8/) - next →: [Borrowed words: French, Norse and Latin, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/23-borrowed-words-french-norse-and-latin/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/23-borrowed-words-french-norse-and-latin/)