Peeking at presents and secrets, sentence 4

She laughed a little and said «Surprises are part of the fun — for both of us», and he decided to wait next time.

Who acts: Mum, Surprises, surprise · What happens: laugh, say, be, decide, wait · To what, where: little, part · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Peeking at presents and secrets» 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 (Mum, Surprises, surprise), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 little	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 laughed	obl:unmarked
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	conj
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 part	punct
8	Surprises	surprise	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 part	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 part	cop
10	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 fun	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fun	det
13	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 part	nmod
14	—	-	PUNCT	_	10 part	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 both	case
16	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	10 part	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 us	case
18	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 both	nmod
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 part	punct
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 decided	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 decided	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 decided	nsubj
23	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 wait	mark
25	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 decided	xcomp
26	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 time	amod
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wait	obl:unmarked
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	Mum	a little			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Mum not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	Surprises	part		of the fun; for both	tree rules
4	decide	past	surprise				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	wait not said to happen	to-infinitive	surprise not said here		time		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:356-peeking-at-presents-diaries-and-letters.lesson:4.

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 ×2, 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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