Copying game moves on a little brother, sentence 2
Alfie flew into the coffee table, split his lip and screamed the house down.
Who acts: Alfie · What happens: fly, split, scream down · To what, where: coffee table, lip, house
This is a sentence of the lesson «Copying game moves on a little brother» 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 (Alfie), 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 | Alfie | Alfie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 flew | nsubj |
| 2 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 table | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 table | det |
| 5 | coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 table | compound |
| 6 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flew | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 split | punct |
| 8 | split | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 flew | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 lip | nmod:poss |
| 10 | lip | lip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 split | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 screamed | cc |
| 12 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 flew | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 screamed | obj |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 screamed | compound:prt |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | Alfie | the coffee table | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into table=Destination | ||||
| 2 | split | past | Alfie not said here | Alfie's lip | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Patient | ||||
| 3 | scream down speech: express | past | Alfie not said here | the house | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Topic |
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:403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother.lesson:2.
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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