Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer, sentence 9

"Show, don't tell" means showing a feeling through actions and details: "her hands shook" shows fear.

Who acts: Show, hands · What happens: not tell, mean, show, shake · To what, where: feeling, actions, fear · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer» 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 (Show, hands), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Show	punct
2	Show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 means	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 tell	advmod
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Show	parataxis
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 means	xcomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 feeling	det
11	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 showing	obj
12	through	through	ADP	_	13 actions	case
13	actions	action	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 feeling	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 details	cc
15	details	detail	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 actions	conj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 shook	punct
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hands	nmod:poss
19	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 shook	nsubj
20	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 shows	csubj
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 shook	punct
22	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 means	conj
23	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shows	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive · do-support				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present	Show			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	show not said to happen	gerund	Show not said here	a feeling	actions and details	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent feeling=Recipient
4	shake in a quote	past	Show's hands			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	show	present	Show not said here	fear		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fear=Recipient

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:054-reading-and-writing-like-a-writer.lesson:9.

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): 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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