Lily, the calm «princess», sentence 15

Her gran told her that real princesses and queens in history often had to be very brave, and Lily did her history project on one.

Who acts: gran, real princesses, Lily · What happens: tell, have, be, do, project · To what, where: Lily, history project · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (gran, real princesses, Lily), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 gran	nmod:poss
2	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 had	mark
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 princesses	amod
7	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 had	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 queens	cc
9	queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 princesses	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 history	case
11	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 princesses	nmod
12	often	often	ADV	_	13 had	advmod
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	17 brave	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 brave	cop
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 brave	advmod
17	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 had	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 did	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 did	cc
20	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 did	nsubj
21	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 project	nmod:poss
23	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 project	compound
24	project	project	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 did	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 one	case
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 did	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Lily's gran		Lily		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	have	past	real princesses in history and queens			often property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	to-infinitive	real princesses in history and queens not said here			brave property	tree rules
4	do	past	Lily	Lily's history project		on one	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent project=Eventuality
5	project		Lily				nom project «act transitive»: poss=agent

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: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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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