Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, sentence 0
Poets paint pictures with words, and they have a few favourite tricks: the simile, the metaphor, personification and alliteration.
Who acts: Poets · What happens: paint, have · To what, where: pictures, few favourite tricks
This is a sentence of the lesson «Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration» 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 (Poets), 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 | Poets | poet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 paint | nsubj |
| 2 | paint | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 paint | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 words | case |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 paint | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 have | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 paint | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tricks | det |
| 11 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tricks | amod |
| 12 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tricks | amod |
| 13 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 have | obj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 tricks | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 simile | det |
| 16 | simile | simile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tricks | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 metaphor | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 metaphor | det |
| 19 | metaphor | metaphor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 simile | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 personification | punct |
| 21 | personification | personification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 simile | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 alliteration | cc |
| 23 | alliteration | alliteration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 personification | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 paint | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | present | Poets | pictures | with words | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent picture=Destination with word=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | present | Poets = poet | a few favourite tricks | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Patient |
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:046-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration.lesson:0.
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, 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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