Taking too much, sentence 6

Ella sulked — «it's not fair, I saw it first» — but at bedtime she said sorry, and the next time there was cake she let her sister choose first.

Who acts: Ella, end, cake, sister · What happens: sulk, not be, see, say, be, let · To what, where: end, bedtime, next time · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Taking too much» 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 (Ella, end, cake, sister), 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	Ella	Ella	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sulked	nsubj
2	sulked	sulk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	—	-	PUNCT	_	2 sulked	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 fair	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fair	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fair	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 fair	advmod
8	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sulked	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sulked	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	obj
13	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 saw	advmod
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 first	punct
15	—	-	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 bedtime	case
18	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	obl
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sulked	conj
21	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 said	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 let	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 let	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 time	det
25	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 time	amod
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 let	obl:unmarked
27	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 was	expl
28	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 time	acl:relcl
29	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 was	nsubj
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 let	nsubj
31	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 said	conj
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 sister	nmod:poss
33	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 choose	nsubj
34	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 let	xcomp
35	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	34 choose	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sulked	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sulk	past	Ella					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	not is in a quote	present	end				fair property	tree rules
3	see in a quote	past	Ella	end			first property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	past	Ella		bedtime		sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	be	past	cake	the next time not said here	there			vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot time=Theme
6	let	past	Ella			time		tree rules
7	choose	infinitive	Ella's sister				first property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: 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:352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing.lesson:6.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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.

See the release 0.4.

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