Rude words at the table, sentence 16

Sophie called Grandad's stories boring and he stopped telling them — until she said sorry and asked him for one.

Who acts: Sophie, Ella · What happens: call, stop, tell, say, ask · To what, where: stories, Sophie · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rude words at the table» 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 (Sophie, Ella), 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	Sophie	Sophie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 stories	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Grandad	case
5	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 called	obj
6	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 called	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stopped	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stopped	nsubj
9	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	conj
10	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 stopped	xcomp
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 telling	obj
12	—	-	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
13	until	until	SCONJ	_	15 said	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stopped	advcl
16	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 said	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 asked	cc
18	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 asked	iobj
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 one	case
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 asked	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	call	past	Sophie	Grandad's stories		boring property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
2	stop	past	Sophie				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	tell speech: assert	gerund	Sophie not said here		stories = story		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
4	say speech: apologize	past	Ella			sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	ask speech: ask	past	Ella not said here		Sophie	for one	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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:354-rude-words-eye-rolls-and-i-hate-you.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×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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