Walking away, sentence 10
When older boys followed Sam and Freddie, they did not run into an empty alley; they walked calmly into the newsagent's.
Who acts: older boys, mates · What happens: follow, not run, walk · To what, where: Sam, empty alley, newsagent
This is a sentence of the lesson «Walking away» 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 (older boys, mates), 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 | _ | 4 followed | mark |
| 2 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 boys | amod |
| 3 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 followed | nsubj |
| 4 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 run | advcl |
| 5 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 followed | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Freddie | cc |
| 7 | Freddie | Freddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Sam | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 followed | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 run | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 run | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 run | advmod |
| 12 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 alley | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 alley | det |
| 15 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 alley | amod |
| 16 | alley | alley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 run | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 walked | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 walked | nsubj |
| 19 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 run | parataxis |
| 20 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 19 walked | advmod |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 newsagent | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 newsagent | det |
| 23 | newsagent | newsagent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 walked | obl |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 newsagent | case |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 run | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | older boys | Sam and Freddie | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sam=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not run | past · do-support | mates = mate | into a empty alley result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into alley=Result | ||||
| 3 | walk | past | mates = mate | into the newsagent result; calmly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into newsagent=Result |
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:371-walking-away.lesson:10.
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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