When not to keep a friend's secret, sentence 26

Finn's friend smashed a school window on purpose and said «If you tell, they'll think you did it too.» Finn told his dad, who went with him to school, and the head believed him because he came forward.

Who acts: friend, you, Others, Finn, dad, head · What happens: smash, say, tell, think, do, go · To what, where: school window, purpose, window, dad, school, friend · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «When not to keep a friend's secret» 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 (friend, you, Others, Finn), 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	Finn	finn	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 friend	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Finn	case
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smashed	nsubj
4	smashed	smash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 window	det
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 window	compound
7	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smashed	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 purpose	case
9	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smashed	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 smashed	conj
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	19 think	punct
13	If	if	SCONJ	_	15 tell	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 tell	nsubj
15	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 think	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 think	nsubj
18	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 think	aux
19	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 did	nsubj
21	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 think	ccomp
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 did	obj
23	too	too	ADV	_	21 did	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 think	punct
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 think	punct
26	Finn	finn	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 told	nsubj
27	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 smashed	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 dad	nmod:poss
29	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 told	iobj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 went	punct
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 went	nsubj
32	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 dad	acl:relcl
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 went	obl
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 school	case
36	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 went	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 believed	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 believed	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 head	det
40	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 believed	nsubj
41	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 told	conj
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 believed	obj
43	because	because	SCONJ	_	45 came	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 came	nsubj
45	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 believed	advcl
46	forward	forward	ADV	_	45 came	advmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 smashed	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	smash	past	Finn's friend	a school window		purpose		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent window=Theme on purpose=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	Finn's friend not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	think speech: other in a quote	future	Others = other					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	do in a quote	past	you	window				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
6	tell speech: assert	past	Finn		friend's dad			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient
7	go	past	friend's dad			school	with friend	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location
8	believe	past	the head	friend				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
9	come forward	past	friend				forward property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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.

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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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