When the story falls apart, sentence 18

When the cast came off he told his best mate, who laughed for ages and then taught him to skate for real.

Who acts: cast, best mate · What happens: come off, tell, laugh, teach, skate · To what, where: best mate, cast · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «When the story falls apart» 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 (cast, best mate), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cast	det
3	cast	cast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	advcl
5	off	off	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	nsubj
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mate	nmod:poss
9	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 mate	amod
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	iobj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 laughed	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 laughed	nsubj
13	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 mate	acl:relcl
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 ages	case
15	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 laughed	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 taught	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 taught	advmod
18	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 laughed	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 taught	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 skate	mark
21	skate	skate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 taught	xcomp
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 real	case
23	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 skate	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come off	past	the cast			off property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	cast	cast's best mate			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mate=Recipient
3	laugh	past	cast's best mate		for ages		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	teach speech: other	past	cast's best mate not said here	cast	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	skate	to-infinitive	cast's best mate not said here			for real	vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP.theme 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:431-when-the-story-falls-apart.lesson:18.

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): no change. 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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