Fire, fireworks, garden dangers and the bathroom, sentence 18
A girl in Wales left a candle burning by the curtains and went to bed; the curtains caught fire, and only the smoke alarm woke the family in time to get out.
Who acts: girl, candle, curtains, smoke alarm · What happens: leave, burn, go, catch, wake, get out · To what, where: candle, bed, fire, family
This is a sentence of the lesson «Fire, fireworks, garden dangers and the bathroom» 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, curtains, smoke alarm), 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 left | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Wales | case |
| 4 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 candle | det |
| 7 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obj |
| 8 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 candle | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 curtains | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 curtains | det |
| 11 | curtains | curtain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 burning | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 bed | case |
| 15 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 curtains | det |
| 18 | curtains | curtain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 caught | nsubj |
| 19 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | parataxis |
| 20 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 caught | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 woke | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 woke | cc |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 alarm | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 alarm | det |
| 25 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 alarm | compound |
| 26 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 woke | nsubj |
| 27 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 caught | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 family | det |
| 29 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 woke | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 time | case |
| 31 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 woke | obl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 get | mark |
| 33 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 time | acl |
| 34 | out | out | ADV | _ | 33 get | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | a girl in Wales | a candle | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | burn | gerund | a candle not said here | by the curtains | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by curtain=Location | ||||
| 3 | go | past | a girl in Wales not said here | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | catch | past | the curtains | fire | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wake | past | the smoke alarm | the family | time | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent family=Patient | |||
| 6 | get out | to-infinitive | the smoke alarm not said here | out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:219-fire-fireworks-tools-and-the-bathroom.lesson:18.
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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