Sam is scared: fear is normal, sentence 15
He froze — and then quietly slid the sandwich away with a ruler.
Who acts: Sam · What happens: freeze, slide away · To what, where: sandwich
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sam is scared: fear is normal» 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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 froze | nsubj |
| 2 | froze | freeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 slid | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 slid | cc |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 slid | advmod |
| 6 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 7 slid | advmod |
| 7 | slid | slide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 froze | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sandwich | det |
| 9 | sandwich | sandwich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slid | obj |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 slid | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 ruler | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 ruler | det |
| 13 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slid | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 froze | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | past | Sam | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | slide away | past | Sam not said here | the sandwich | then | with a ruler; away, quietly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sandwich=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:366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal.lesson:15.
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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