Author's choices: why this word, why this way, sentence 7

Italics, the slanted letters in «*Don't look back,* she told herself», often show a character's thoughts.

Who acts: danger, Italics, character · What happens: not look back, tell, show, think · To what, where: danger, thoughts · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Author's choices: why this word, why this way» 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 (danger, Italics, character), 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	Italics	italic	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 show	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 letters	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 letters	det
4	slanted	slanted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 letters	amod
5	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Italics	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 «	case
7	«	«	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Italics	nmod
8	*	*	PUNCT	_	11 look	punct
9	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 look	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 look	advmod
11	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Italics	parataxis
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 look	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 look	punct
14	*	*	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	nsubj
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 show	parataxis
17	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 told	obj
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 told	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 show	punct
20	often	often	ADV	_	21 show	advmod
21	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 character	det
23	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 thoughts	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 character	case
25	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 show	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 show	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not look back in a quote	infinitive · do-support				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	danger	danger		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient
3	show	present	Italics in « and the slanted letters	a character's thoughts	often property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent thought=Recipient clause=Topic
4	think		a character			nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=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:021-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way.lesson:7.

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): no change. 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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