Snooping on phones, diaries and letters, sentence 9

But a habit changes slowly — so when you're bored, come and find me, and we'll find you something to do.» Ruby put a list of rainy-day things on the fridge.

Who acts: habit, you, we, Ruby · What happens: change, be, come, find, do, put · To what, where: me, something, you, list, fridge, day things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Snooping on phones, diaries and letters» 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 (habit, you, we, Ruby), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

request

voice

character

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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