Reading a story: characters, plot and setting, sentence 0
Every story has characters (who), a setting (where and when) and a plot (what happens).
Who acts: story, plot · What happens: have, happen · To what, where: characters
This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading a story: characters, plot and setting» 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 (story, plot), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 who | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 characters | appos |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 who | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 setting | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 setting | det |
| 10 | setting | setting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 characters | conj |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 where | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 setting | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 when | cc |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 where | conj |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 where | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 plot | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 plot | det |
| 18 | plot | plot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 where | conj |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 happens | punct |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 happens | nsubj |
| 21 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 plot | acl:relcl |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 happens | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | every story | characters and a setting | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent character=Patient | ||||
| 2 | happen | present | a plot | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:022-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting.lesson:0.
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 ×2. 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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