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title: Lady Godiva was a real noblewoman of the 1000s, but the story of her… — Kings, queens and emperors · tree and pragmatics
description: Lady Godiva was a real noblewoman of the 1000s, but the story of her famous ride was first written down more than a hundred years after she died, and "Peeping Tom" was added centuries later still. Who acts: Lady Godiva, Godiva. A sentence of the lesson «Kings, queens and emperors» of the myths cours
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# Kings, queens and emperors, sentence 15

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Lady Godiva was a real noblewoman of the 1000s, but the story of her famous ride was first written down more than a hundred years after she died, and "Peeping Tom" was added centuries later still.

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**Who acts:** Lady Godiva, Godiva · **What happens:** be, write down, die, add, ride · **To what, where:** real noblewoman, story, Peeping Tom

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Kings, queens and emperors» of the myths 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 (Lady Godiva, Godiva), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:019-kings-queens-and-emperors.lesson:15
# text = Lady Godiva was a real noblewoman of the 1000s, but the story of her famous ride was first written down more than a hundred years after she died, and "Peeping Tom" was added centuries later still.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 019-kings-queens-and-emperors.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3
1	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Godiva	Godiva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	noblewoman	noblewoman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	1000s	1000	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	advmod	_	_
20	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
23	than	than	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:det
25	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	_
33	Peeping	Peeping	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
38	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:obl:unmarked
39	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	37	advmod	_	_
40	still	still	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is a** | past | Lady Godiva | a real noblewoman |  |  |  | of the 1000s | tree rules |
| 2 | **write down** | past · passive |  | the story of Godiva's famous ride |  |  | year | first *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **die** | past | Godiva |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | Peeping Tom |  |  |  | late *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **ride** |  | Godiva |  |  |  |  |  | nom ride «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3. **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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