Home alone, keys and garden play, sentence 16

A boy in Ohio home alone opened the door to a man who said he was from the gas company; the man walked in and took things, and the boy was very frightened.

Who acts: boy, man · What happens: open, say, be, walk in, take · To what, where: door, man, gas company, things, boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Home alone, keys and garden play» 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 (boy, man), 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 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 opened	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 home	case
4	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 home	compound
5	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	7 opened	advmod
7	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 opened	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 man	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 opened	obl
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 man	acl:relcl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 company	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 company	cop
17	from	from	ADP	_	20 company	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 company	det
19	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 company	compound
20	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	ccomp
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 walked	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 man	det
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 walked	nsubj
24	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 opened	parataxis
25	in	in	ADV	_	24 walked	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 took	cc
27	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 walked	conj
28	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 took	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 frightened	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 frightened	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 boy	det
32	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 frightened	nsubj:pass
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 frightened	cop
34	very	very	ADV	_	35 frightened	advmod
35	frightened	frighten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 opened	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 opened	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	open	past	a boy in Ohio home	the door	a man		alone property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent door=Patient to man=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	a man					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	boy			the gas company		tree rules
4	walk in	past	the man					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	take	past	the man not said here	things				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
6	is	past · passive		the boy			frighten property	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:everyday:116-home-alone-keys-and-garden-play.lesson:16.

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 ×2, R8-pos-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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