Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers and animals and pets, sentence 21

"Gone to doggy heaven" is a gentle, half-joking way to tell a child the dog died.

Who acts: dog · What happens: go, joke, be, tell, die · To what, where: doggy heaven, gentle joking way, child · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers and animals and pets» of the euphemisms 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 (dog), 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 Gone	punct
2	Gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 way	nsubj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 heaven	case
4	doggy	doggy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heaven	compound
5	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Gone	obl
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Gone	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 way	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 way	det
9	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 way	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 joking	punct
11	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	13 joking	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 half	punct
13	joking	joke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 way	amod
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	16 tell	mark
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 way	acl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 child	det
18	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tell	iobj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dog	det
20	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 died	nsubj
21	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 way	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	go in a quote	participle				doggy heaven	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to heaven=Initial_Location
2	joke speech: other	gerund					vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present		a gentle joking way			tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive			a child		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic
5	die	past	the dog				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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:euphemisms:017-school-and-pets.lesson:21.

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 ×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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