Reading a story: characters, plot and setting, sentence 2
It was thin and wet and hissed when she reached out.
Who acts: kitten, Nell · What happens: be, hiss, reach out
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 (kitten, Nell), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thin | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thin | cop |
| 3 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wet | cc |
| 5 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thin | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hissed | cc |
| 7 | hissed | hiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thin | conj |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 reached | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 reached | nsubj |
| 10 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hissed | advcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 reached | compound:prt |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thin | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | kitten | thin property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | kitten not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | hiss | past | kitten not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | reach out | past | Nell | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «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:022-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting.lesson:2.
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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