Promises to family, sentence 3
When Oliver came home, Alfie was crying and Mum just looked sad.
Who acts: Oliver, Alfie, Mum · What happens: come, cry, look
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 (Oliver, Alfie, Mum), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 came | mark |
| 2 | Oliver | Oliver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 crying | advcl |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 crying | punct |
| 6 | Alfie | Alfie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 crying | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 crying | aux |
| 8 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 looked | cc |
| 10 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 looked | advmod |
| 12 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 crying | conj |
| 13 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 looked | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 crying | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Oliver | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past · progressive | Alfie | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | look | past | Mum | sad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:3.
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): no change. 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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