Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 8

"Fiddlesticks!" is an old-fashioned mild word for annoyance instead of a real swear.

Who acts: Fiddlesticks · What happens: be · To what, where: fashioned mild word

This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing» 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 (Fiddlesticks), 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 Fiddlesticks	punct
2	Fiddlesticks	fiddlestick	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 word	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Fiddlesticks	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Fiddlesticks	punct
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 word	cop
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 word	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fashioned	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 old	punct
9	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 word	amod
10	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 word	amod
11	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 annoyance	case
13	annoyance	annoyance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 word	nmod
14	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	18 swear	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	14 instead	fixed
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 swear	det
17	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 swear	amod
18	swear	swear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 word	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 word	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Fiddlesticks	a fashioned mild word				for annoyance; instead a real swear	tree rules

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:039-pardon-my-french.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): no change. 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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