Reading a story: characters, plot and setting, sentence 13

But every night he left the hall light on "by accident".» The quotation marks tell you it wasn't an accident at all.

Who acts: Ravi, quotation marks, light · What happens: leave, tell, not be · To what, where: hall light, accident, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Ravi, quotation marks, light), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 left	cc
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 night	det
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	obl:unmarked
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 left	nsubj
5	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 light	det
7	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 light	compound
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 accident	case
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 accident	punct
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 accident	case
12	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	obl
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 accident	punct
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 left	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 left	punct
16	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 marks	det
17	quotation	quotation	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 marks	compound
18	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 tell	nsubj
19	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 left	parataxis
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 tell	iobj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 accident	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 accident	cop
23	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 accident	advmod
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 accident	det
25	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tell	ccomp
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 all	fixed
27	all	all	ADV	PronType=Tot	25 accident	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 left	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	Ravi	the hall light		accident	night		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	the quotation marks		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	not is a in a quote	past	light	a accident				all property	tree rules

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:13.

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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