Giggles, skipping and the collection plate, sentence 16
Sam ran up the aisle and knocked over the candles: someone could have been burnt, and the cloth was spoiled with wax; he said sorry to the vicar (the priest in some churches) and helped scrape off the wax.
Who acts: Sam, cloth · What happens: run up, knock over, burnt, spoil, say, help · To what, where: aisle, candles, someone, cloth, vicar, wax · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Giggles, skipping and the collection plate» 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 (Sam, cloth), 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 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 ran | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 aisle | det |
| 5 | aisle | aisle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 knocked | cc |
| 7 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 knocked | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 candles | det |
| 10 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 knocked | obj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 burnt | punct |
| 12 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 burnt | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 burnt | aux |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 burnt | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 burnt | aux:pass |
| 16 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 knocked | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 spoiled | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 spoiled | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cloth | det |
| 20 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 spoiled | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 spoiled | aux:pass |
| 22 | spoiled | spoil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 burnt | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 wax | case |
| 24 | wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 spoiled | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 said | nsubj |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | parataxis |
| 28 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 said | xcomp |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 vicar | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 vicar | det |
| 31 | vicar | vicar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 said | obl |
| 32 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 34 priest | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 priest | det |
| 34 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 vicar | appos |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 churches | case |
| 36 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 37 churches | det |
| 37 | churches | church | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 priest | nmod |
| 38 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 34 priest | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 helped | cc |
| 40 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 said | conj |
| 41 | scrape | scrape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 helped | xcomp |
| 42 | off | off | ADP | _ | 41 scrape | compound:prt |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 wax | det |
| 44 | wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 scrape | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run up | past | Sam | the aisle | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | knock over | past | Sam not said here | the candles | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent candle=Patient | ||||
| 3 | burnt | could · perfect · passive | someone | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | spoil | past · passive | the cloth | with wax | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: apologize | past | cloth | the vicar | sorry property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to vicar=Recipient | |||
| 6 | help | past | cloth not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | scrape off | infinitive | cloth not said here | the wax | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wax=Patient |
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:364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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