The library and books, sentence 16

A boy in Canada climbed the library shelves to reach a book at the top; the shelf tipped and books fell on him, cutting his head.

Who acts: boy, shelf, books · What happens: climb, reach, tip, fall, cut · To what, where: library shelves, book, top, head

This is a sentence of the lesson «The library and books» 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, shelf, books), 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	5 climbed	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Canada	case
4	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shelves	det
7	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shelves	compound
8	shelves	shelf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 climbed	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 reach	mark
10	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 climbed	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 book	det
12	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reach	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 top	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 top	det
15	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 book	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 tipped	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 shelf	det
18	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tipped	nsubj
19	tipped	tip	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 climbed	parataxis
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 fell	cc
21	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 fell	nsubj
22	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 tipped	conj
23	on	on	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fell	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 cutting	punct
26	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 fell	advcl
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 head	nmod:poss
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cutting	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	climb	past	a boy in Canada	the library shelves			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location shelf=Theme
2	reach	to-infinitive	a boy in Canada not said here	a book	the top		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent book=Theme at top=Asset
3	tip	past	the shelf				vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	fall	past	books			on boy	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on he=Location
5	cut	gerund	books not said here	boy's head			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset head=Product

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:259-library-and-books.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): 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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