Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, sentence 8
Personification gives human actions or feelings to non-human things: "the wind screamed", "the moon smiled".
Who acts: Personification, wind, moon · What happens: give, scream, smile · To what, where: human actions · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Personification, wind, moon), 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 | Personification | personification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gives | nsubj |
| 2 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 actions | amod |
| 4 | actions | action | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gives | obj |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 feelings | cc |
| 6 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 actions | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 things | case |
| 8 | non-human | non-human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 things | amod |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gives | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 smiled | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 screamed | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wind | det |
| 13 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 screamed | nsubj |
| 14 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gives | parataxis |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 screamed | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 screamed | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 smiled | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 moon | det |
| 19 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 smiled | nsubj |
| 20 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gives | parataxis |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 smiled | punct |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Personification | human actions or feelings | to non-human things | tree rules | |||
| 2 | scream speech: express in a quote | past | the wind | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | smile in a quote | past | the moon | 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:046-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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