Openings that hook the reader, sentence 14
Fairy-tale openings like "Once upon a time" suit fairy tales, but other stories usually need a sharper first line.
Who acts: tale openings, other stories · What happens: suit, need · To what, where: fairy tales, sharper first line
This is a sentence of the lesson «Openings that hook the reader» 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 (tale openings, other stories), 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 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tale | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fairy | punct |
| 3 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 openings | compound |
| 4 | openings | opening | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 suit | nsubj |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 Once | case |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Once | punct |
| 7 | Once | Once | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 openings | nmod |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Once | obl |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 time | punct |
| 12 | suit | suit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tales | compound |
| 14 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 suit | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 need | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 need | cc |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 stories | amod |
| 18 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 need | nsubj |
| 19 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 20 need | advmod |
| 20 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 suit | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 line | det |
| 22 | sharper | sharper | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 line | amod |
| 23 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 line | amod |
| 24 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 need | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 suit | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suit | present | tale openings like Once | fairy tales | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | need | present | other stories | a sharper first line | usually property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot line=Theme |
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:040-openings-that-hook-the-reader.lesson:14.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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