Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How's it going?», introductions, goodbyes, please and thank you, excuse me, and table manners, sentence 21

A boy in Canada shoved past people at a shop's door without saying excuse me; an old man lost his balance and fell, hurting his hip.

Who acts: boy, old man, man · What happens: shove, say, excuse, lose, fell, hurt · To what, where: door, me, balance, hip · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Manners: greeting every worker, handshakes, «How's it going?», introductions, goodbyes, please and thank you, excuse me, and table manners» 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, old man, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

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.

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