Home alone, the door and the phone, sentence 10

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

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

This is a sentence of the lesson «Home alone, the door and the phone» 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, door, thief), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

narrate

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

kept the draft

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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