Describing: senses, showing and precise words, sentence 3
She held her breath and listened") and let the reader work out the feeling, which readers love doing.
Who acts: word, reader, readers · What happens: hold, listen, let, work out, love, do · To what, where: breath, reader, feeling
This is a sentence of the lesson «Describing: senses, showing and precise words» 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 (word, reader, readers), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 held | nsubj |
| 2 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 breath | nmod:poss |
| 4 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 held | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 listened | cc |
| 6 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 held | conj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 listened | punct |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 held | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 let | cc |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 held | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 reader | det |
| 12 | reader | reader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 let | obj |
| 13 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 work | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 feeling | det |
| 16 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 work | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 love | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 doing | obj |
| 19 | readers | reader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 love | nsubj |
| 20 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 feeling | acl:relcl |
| 21 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 love | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 held | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | word | word's breath | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | ||||
| 2 | listen | past | word not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | word not said here | the reader | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | work out in a quote | infinitive | the reader not said here | the feeling | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Topic | ||||
| 5 | love in a quote | present | readers | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | do not said to happen, in a quote | gerund | readers not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |
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:041-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words.lesson:3.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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