Lily, the calm «princess», sentence 12
Lily also asked Maddie to teach her to climb trees: she got stuck on the first branch, laughed at herself, and Maddie's mum helped her down.
Who acts: Lily, mum · What happens: ask, teach, climb, laugh, help down · To what, where: Maddie, Lily, trees
This is a sentence of the lesson «Lily, the calm «princess»» 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 (Lily, mum), 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 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 asked | advmod |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 teach | mark |
| 6 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | xcomp |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 teach | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 climb | mark |
| 9 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 teach | xcomp |
| 10 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 climb | obj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 stuck | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stuck | nsubj |
| 13 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 stuck | aux:pass |
| 14 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 asked | parataxis |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 branch | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 branch | det |
| 17 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 branch | amod |
| 18 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stuck | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 laughed | punct |
| 20 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 stuck | conj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 herself | case |
| 22 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 laughed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 helped | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 helped | cc |
| 25 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 mum | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 Maddie | case |
| 27 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 helped | nsubj |
| 28 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 stuck | conj |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 helped | obj |
| 30 | down | down | ADP | _ | 28 helped | compound:prt |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Lily | Maddie | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent maddie=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | teach speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive | Lily not said here | Lily | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | climb | to-infinitive | Lily not said here | trees | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme | ||||
| 4 | laugh | past | Lily not said here | at Lily | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | help down | past | Maddie's mum | Lily | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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:386-lily-the-calm-princess.lesson:12.
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, 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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