Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van, sentence 24
It did, and Ollie cried more because he felt tricked; the nurse's «it'll sting for a second, then it's done» was better.
Who acts: Ollie, injection, nurse · What happens: cry, feel, trick, sting, do, be · To what, where: injection · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van» 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 (Ollie, injection, nurse), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 cried | cc |
| 5 | Ollie | Ollie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | conj |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 cried | advmod |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 felt | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 felt | nsubj |
| 10 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cried | advcl |
| 11 | tricked | trick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 felt | xcomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 sting | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 nurse | det |
| 14 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 better | nsubj |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 nurse | case |
| 16 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 19 sting | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sting | nsubj |
| 18 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 sting | aux |
| 19 | sting | sting | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 nurse | appos |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 second | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 second | det |
| 22 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sting | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 done | punct |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 done | advmod |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 done | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 done | aux:pass |
| 27 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 sting | parataxis |
| 28 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 19 sting | punct |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 better | cop |
| 30 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 did | parataxis |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Ollie | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | feel | past | Ollie | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | trick | participle | Ollie not said here | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sting in a quote | future | injection | second | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | do in a quote | present · passive | injection | then | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | is | past | the nurse | good property | 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.
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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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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