When the police come, sentence 9
Oranges rolled into the road, and the shopkeeper, Mr Patel, fed up, rang the police.
Who acts: Oranges, shopkeeper · What happens: roll, feed up, ring · To what, where: road, Mr, police
This is a sentence of the lesson «When the police come» 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 (Oranges, shopkeeper), 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 | Oranges | orange | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rolled | nsubj |
| 2 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 road | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 road | det |
| 5 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rolled | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shopkeeper | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 rang | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shopkeeper | det |
| 9 | shopkeeper | shopkeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rang | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Mr | punct |
| 11 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 shopkeeper | appos |
| 12 | Patel | Patel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Mr | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fed | punct |
| 14 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 Mr | acl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 fed | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oranges | punct |
| 17 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rolled | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 police | det |
| 19 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 rang | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 rang | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | past | Oranges | the road | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into road=Destination | ||||
| 2 | feed up | participle | Mr not said here | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ring | past | the shopkeeper | the police | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location police=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:384-when-the-police-come.lesson:9.
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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