Walking away, sentence 3

The boy shouted «chicken!» three times, then four, then found he was shouting at an empty pavement, and went home for his tea.

Who acts: boy · What happens: shout, find, go · To what, where: chicken, empty pavement · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (boy), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shouted	nsubj
3	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	«	«	ADP	_	5 chicken	case
5	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shouted	obj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 chicken	punct
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 chicken	punct
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 times	nummod
9	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shouted	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 four	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 four	advmod
12	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 shouted	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 found	punct
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 found	advmod
15	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shouted	conj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 shouting	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 shouting	aux
18	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 found	ccomp
19	at	at	ADP	_	22 pavement	case
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 pavement	det
21	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 pavement	amod
22	pavement	pavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shouting	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 went	cc
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 found	conj
26	home	home	ADV	_	25 went	advmod
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 tea	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 tea	nmod:poss
29	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 went	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shouted	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past	the boy	chicken		time	four obl	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Topic
2	find	past	the boy not said here			then		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	shout speech: express	past · progressive	boy		a empty pavement			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go	past	the boy not said here				for boy's tea; home property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for tea=Beneficiary

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: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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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