Promises to family, sentence 2
Alfie waited by the window all afternoon with the box open.
Who acts: Alfie · What happens: wait
This is a sentence of the lesson «Promises to family» 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 (Alfie), 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 | Alfie | Alfie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 waited | nsubj |
| 2 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 window | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 window | det |
| 5 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 waited | obl |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 afternoon | det |
| 7 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 waited | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 box | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 box | det |
| 10 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 waited | obl |
| 11 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 waited | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | Alfie | afternoon | by the window; with the box | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by window=Location |
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:358-promises-to-little-brothers-gran-dad-and-the-cat.lesson:2.
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): 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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