Reading a story: characters, plot and setting, sentence 21
In a plot, one event often causes the next; this is cause and effect.
Who acts: one event, this · What happens: cause, be · To what, where: next, plot, cause
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 (one event, this), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 plot | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 plot | det |
| 3 | plot | plot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 causes | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 plot | punct |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 event | nummod |
| 6 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 causes | nsubj |
| 7 | often | often | ADV | _ | 8 causes | advmod |
| 8 | causes | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 next | det |
| 10 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 causes | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 cause | punct |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 cause | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 cause | cop |
| 14 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 causes | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 effect | cc |
| 16 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cause | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 causes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | present | one event | the next | a plot | often property | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition next=Patient | ||
| 2 | is a | present | this | cause and effect | 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:21.
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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