Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures, sentence 4

Spiders are mostly harmless to people, but a few are dangerous, so we watch and never handle wild ones, and we forget the myth about swallowing spiders in our sleep.

Who acts: Spiders, few, we, myth, our · What happens: be, watch, not handle, forget, swallow, sleep · To what, where: wild ones, myth, spiders, sleep

This is a sentence of the lesson «Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures» of the biology 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 (Spiders, few, we, myth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

kept the draft

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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