The broken window and other hidden accidents, sentence 19
Isla in Edinburgh broke her friend's pen and slipped it back into the pencil case; the next day she said «Aye, it was me, sorry, I'll get you a new one», and her friend was mad for a day, then fine.
Who acts: Isla, pen, friend · What happens: break, slip back, say, be, get · To what, where: pen, pencil case, Isla, new one, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The broken window and other hidden accidents» 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 (Isla, pen, friend), 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 | Isla | Isla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 broke | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Edinburgh | case |
| 3 | Edinburgh | Edinburgh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Isla | nmod |
| 4 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 friend | nmod:poss |
| 6 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pen | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 friend | case |
| 8 | pen | pen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 broke | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 slipped | cc |
| 10 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 broke | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 slipped | obj |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 slipped | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 case | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 case | det |
| 15 | pencil | pencil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 case | compound |
| 16 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 slipped | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 day | det |
| 19 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 day | amod |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 said | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 said | nsubj |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 broke | parataxis |
| 23 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 24 | Aye | aye | INTJ | _ | 28 me | discourse |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 me | punct |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 me | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 me | cop |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 said | ccomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 me | punct |
| 30 | sorry | sorry | INTJ | _ | 34 get | discourse |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 get | punct |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 get | nsubj |
| 33 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 get | aux |
| 34 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 broke | conj |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 get | iobj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 one | det |
| 37 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 one | amod |
| 38 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 get | obj |
| 39 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 mad | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 mad | cc |
| 42 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 friend | nmod:poss |
| 43 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 mad | nsubj |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 mad | cop |
| 45 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 broke | conj |
| 46 | for | for | ADP | _ | 48 day | case |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 day | det |
| 48 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 mad | obl |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 fine | punct |
| 50 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 51 fine | advmod |
| 51 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 mad | conj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | Isla in Edinburgh | Isla's friend's pen | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pen=Patient | ||||
| 2 | slip back | past | Isla in Edinburgh not said here | pen | the pencil case | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Isla | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | past | pen | Isla | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | get in a quote | future | Isla | a new one | you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary one=Theme | |||
| 6 | is | past | Isla's friend | day | mad property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | be | Isla's friend not said here | then | tree rules |
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:428-the-broken-window-and-other-hidden-accidents.lesson:19.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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