Fire, candles and garage and garden tools, sentence 20

A girl in Ohio fell asleep with a candle burning on her shelf; it lit the curtains, and the family escaped only because the smoke alarm went off.

Who acts: girl, candle, pool, family, smoke alarm · What happens: fall, burn, light, escape, go off · To what, where: shelf, curtains

This is a sentence of the lesson «Fire, candles and garage and garden tools» of the everyday 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 (girl, candle, pool, family), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ohio	case
4	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fell	xcomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 candle	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 candle	det
9	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asleep	obl
10	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 candle	acl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 shelf	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 shelf	nmod:poss
13	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 burning	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 lit	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lit	nsubj
16	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fell	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 curtains	det
18	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 lit	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 escaped	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 escaped	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 family	det
22	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 escaped	nsubj
23	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fell	conj
24	only	only	ADV	_	29 went	advmod
25	because	because	SCONJ	_	29 went	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 alarm	det
27	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 alarm	compound
28	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 went	nsubj
29	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 escaped	advcl
30	off	off	ADP	_	29 went	compound:prt
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fell	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	a girl in Ohio			asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	burn	gerund	a candle not said here		girl's shelf		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shelf=Location
3	light	past	pool	the curtains			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curtain=Product
4	escape	past	the family				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go off	past	the smoke alarm				vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: 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:everyday:115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools.lesson:20.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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