Cruel pranks and where the line is, sentence 11

Big kids in Glasgow sent wee Lewis to ask the shopkeeper for «a tin of tartan paint»; there is no such thing, the shopkeeper played along, and Lewis laughed too when he got it — next year he sent a younger kid for «a long stand».

Who acts: Big kids, such thing, shopkeeper, Lewis · What happens: send, ask, be, play along, laugh, get · To what, where: wee Lewis, shopkeeper, younger kid

This is a sentence of the lesson «Cruel pranks and where the line is» 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 (Big kids, such thing, shopkeeper, Lewis), 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	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kids	amod
2	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sent	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Glasgow	case
4	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 kids	nmod
5	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Lewis	amod
7	Lewis	Lewis	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sent	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 ask	mark
9	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sent	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shopkeeper	det
11	shopkeeper	shopkeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ask	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 tin	case
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 tin	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 tin	det
15	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ask	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 paint	case
17	tartan	tartan	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 paint	compound
18	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tin	nmod
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 tin	punct
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 is	punct
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 is	expl
22	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 played	ccomp
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 thing	det
24	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 thing	amod
25	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 is	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 is	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 shopkeeper	det
28	shopkeeper	shopkeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 played	nsubj
29	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sent	parataxis
30	along	along	ADV	_	29 played	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 laughed	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 laughed	cc
33	Lewis	Lewis	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 laughed	nsubj
34	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sent	conj
35	too	too	ADV	_	34 laughed	advmod
36	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	38 got	advmod
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 got	nsubj
38	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 laughed	advcl
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 got	obj
40	—	-	PUNCT	_	38 got	punct
41	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 year	amod
42	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 sent	obl:unmarked
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 sent	nsubj
44	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 laughed	conj
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 kid	det
46	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	47 kid	amod
47	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 sent	obj
48	for	for	ADP	_	52 stand	case
49	«	«	PUNCT	_	52 stand	punct
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 stand	det
51	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 stand	amod
52	stand	stand	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 sent	obl
53	»	»	PUNCT	_	52 stand	punct
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sent	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	Big kids in Glasgow	wee Lewis				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lewis=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	Big kids in Glasgow not said here	the shopkeeper			for a tin of tartan paint	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent shopkeeper=Recipient
3	be	present	no such thing		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	play along	past	the shopkeeper				along property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	laugh	past	Lewis					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	get	past	Lewis	shopkeeper				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
7	send	past	Lewis	a younger kid		year	for a long stand	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=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:439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is.lesson:11.

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 ×2, 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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