Crossing the road, sentence 6

A girl in Manchester stepped out from between two parked vans; the driver coming along could not see her until the last second, and only just managed to swerve.

Who acts: girl, driver · What happens: step out, park, come along, not see, manage, swerve · To what, where: two parked vans, girl

This is a sentence of the lesson «Crossing the road» 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 (girl, driver), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stepped	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Manchester	case
4	Manchester	Manchester	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 stepped	compound:prt
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 between	case
8	between	between	ADP	_	11 vans	case
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 vans	nummod
10	parked	park	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 vans	amod
11	vans	van	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stepped	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 driver	det
14	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 see	nsubj
15	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 driver	acl
16	along	along	ADV	_	15 coming	advmod
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 see	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 see	advmod
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 stepped	parataxis
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 see	obj
21	until	until	ADP	_	24 second	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 second	det
23	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 second	amod
24	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 see	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 managed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 managed	cc
27	only	only	ADV	_	29 managed	advmod
28	just	just	ADV	_	29 managed	advmod
29	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 see	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 swerve	mark
31	swerve	swerve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 managed	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stepped	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	step out	past	a girl in Manchester		two parked vans			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between van=Trajectory
2	park	participle						vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	come along	gerund	the driver not said here				along property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not see	could	the driver	girl		second		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
5	manage	past	the driver not said here					vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	swerve	to-infinitive	the driver not said here					vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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:041-crossing-the-road.lesson:6.

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): R5-strong ×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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