Prediction: what happens next, sentence 8

And authors sometimes surprise us on purpose: Isla predicts the princess will save herself instead of waiting for a prince, and in many modern stories she does.

Who acts: authors, Isla, princess · What happens: surprise, predict, save, wait, do · To what, where: us, purpose, princess, many modern stories

This is a sentence of the lesson «Prediction: what happens next» of the english 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 (authors, Isla, princess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 surprise	cc
2	authors	author	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 surprise	nsubj
3	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	_	4 surprise	advmod
4	surprise	surprise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 surprise	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 purpose	case
7	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 surprise	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 predicts	punct
9	Isla	Isla	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 predicts	nsubj
10	predicts	predict	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 surprise	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 princess	det
12	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 save	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 save	aux
14	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 predicts	ccomp
15	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 save	obj
16	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	18 waiting	mark
17	of	of	ADP	_	16 instead	fixed
18	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 save	advcl
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 prince	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 prince	det
21	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 waiting	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 does	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 does	cc
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 stories	case
25	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 stories	amod
26	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 stories	amod
27	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 does	obl
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 does	nsubj
29	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 predicts	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 surprise	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	surprise	present	authors	us	purpose	sometimes property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer
2	predict	present	Isla				vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot clause=Topic
3	save	future	the princess	princess			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme
4	wait	gerund	the princess not said here			for a prince	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	do	present	Isla		many modern stories		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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, 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:english:019-prediction-what-happens-next.lesson:8.

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.

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