Reading a story: characters, plot and setting, sentence 8

Tim wants to win the race, but stops to help a friend who falls; he comes last and smiles.

Who acts: Tim, friend · What happens: want, win, stop, help, fall, come · To what, where: race, friend

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 (Tim, friend), 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	Tim	Tim	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 win	mark
4	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 race	det
6	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 win	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stops	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 stops	cc
9	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wants	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 help	mark
11	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 stops	xcomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 friend	det
13	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 help	obj
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 falls	nsubj
15	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 friend	acl:relcl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 comes	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 comes	nsubj
18	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wants	parataxis
19	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 comes	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 smiles	cc
21	smiles	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 comes	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wants	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	want	present	Tim				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	win not said to happen	to-infinitive	Tim not said here	the race			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality
3	stop	present	Tim not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	help	to-infinitive	Tim not said here		a friend		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Beneficiary
5	fall	present	a friend				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come	present	Tim			last property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	smile	present	Tim not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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:8.

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): R1-cc-next ×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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