Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty, sentence 17
"Sent to the knacker's yard" (old-fashioned UK) means an old horse was sent to be slaughtered.
Who acts: old horse · What happens: send, mean, slaughter · To what, where: old horse · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty» 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 (old horse), 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 Sent | punct |
| 2 | Sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 means | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 yard | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 knacker | det |
| 5 | knacker | knacker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 yard | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 knacker | case |
| 7 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Sent | obl |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sent | punct |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 UK | punct |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fashioned | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 old | punct |
| 12 | fashioned | fashioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 UK | amod |
| 13 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sent | parataxis |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 UK | punct |
| 15 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 horse | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 horse | amod |
| 18 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sent | aux:pass |
| 20 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 means | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 slaughtered | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 slaughtered | aux:pass |
| 23 | slaughtered | slaughter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 sent | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send in a quote | participle | to the knacker's yard | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | send | past · passive | a old horse | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | slaughter | to-infinitive · passive | a old horse not said here | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP» |
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:018-pets-and-money.lesson:17.
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. 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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