Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes, sentence 23
"Came a cropper" (UK) means failed badly or fell over.
What happens: come, mean, fail, fall · To what, where: cropper · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes» 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: 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 Came | punct |
| 2 | Came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 means | nsubj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cropper | det |
| 4 | cropper | cropper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Came | obj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Came | punct |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 UK | punct |
| 7 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Came | dep |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 UK | punct |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | failed | fail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 means | ccomp |
| 11 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 failed | advmod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 over | cc |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 failed | conj |
| 14 | over | over | ADV | _ | 13 fell | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Came | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | past | a cropper | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cropper=Theme | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | fail | participle | badly property | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fall | past | over property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:033-failure-and-mistakes.lesson:23.
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 ×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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