Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries, sentence 10

The first paragraph tells who, what, when and where: «Nine-year-old Ella Brown rescued six ducklings from a drain on Monday.» Quotes like «"It was terrifying," said Mrs Patel» give real people's words and make the report feel true.

Who acts: first paragraph, old Ella Brown, paragraph, Mrs, Quotes, report · What happens: tell, rescue, be, say, give, make · To what, where: six ducklings, drain, words, report · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries» 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 (first paragraph, old Ella Brown, paragraph, Mrs), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 paragraph	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 paragraph	amod
3	paragraph	paragraph	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tells	nsubj
4	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 tells	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 what	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 who	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 when	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 where	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 where	cc
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 who	conj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 «	punct
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	21 rescued	punct
14	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 year	nummod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 Nine	punct
16	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 old	obl:unmarked
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 year	punct
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Brown	amod
19	Ella	Ella	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Brown	compound
20	Brown	Brown	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 rescued	nsubj
21	rescued	rescue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tells	ccomp
22	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 ducklings	nummod
23	ducklings	duckling	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 rescued	obj
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 drain	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 drain	det
26	drain	drain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rescued	obl
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 Monday	case
28	Monday	Monday	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 rescued	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tells	punct
30	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 rescued	punct
31	Quotes	quote	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 give	nsubj
32	like	like	ADP	_	37 terrifying	mark
33	«	«	PUNCT	_	37 terrifying	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 terrifying	punct
35	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 terrifying	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 terrifying	cop
37	terrifying	terrifying	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Quotes	parataxis
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 terrifying	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 terrifying	punct
40	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 terrifying	parataxis
41	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 said	nsubj
42	Patel	Patel	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Mrs	flat
43	»	»	PUNCT	_	44 give	punct
44	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tells	parataxis
45	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 people	amod
46	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 words	nmod:poss
47	's	's	PART	_	46 people	case
48	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 give	obj
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 make	cc
50	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 give	conj
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 report	det
52	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 make	obj
53	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 make	xcomp
54	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 feel	xcomp
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tells	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	the first paragraph					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent who=Recipient clause=Topic
2	rescue in a quote	past	old Ella Brown	six ducklings	a drain	monday		vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent duckling=Theme from drain=Source
3	is	past	paragraph				terrifying property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Mrs					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	give	present	Quotes	real people's words				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
6	make	infinitive	Quotes not said here	the report				tree rules
7	feel	infinitive	the report not said here				true property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
8	word		real people					nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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:024-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries.lesson:10.

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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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