The older kid's «trade», sentence 25
At a school fair an older boy sold Mia «magic wishing stones» — gravel from the car park — for a pound each.
Who acts: older boy · What happens: sell, wish · To what, where: magic wishing stones, Mia, school fair
This is a sentence of the lesson «The older kid's «trade»» 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 (older boy), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 fair | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fair | det |
| 3 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fair | compound |
| 4 | fair | fair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sold | obl |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 6 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 boy | amod |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sold | nsubj |
| 8 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sold | iobj |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 stones | punct |
| 11 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stones | compound |
| 12 | wishing | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 stones | amod |
| 13 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sold | obj |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 16 gravel | punct |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 gravel | punct |
| 16 | gravel | gravel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stones | appos |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 park | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 park | det |
| 19 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 park | compound |
| 20 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gravel | nmod |
| 21 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 pound | punct |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 pound | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 pound | det |
| 24 | pound | pound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sold | obl |
| 25 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 pound | nmod:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sold | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | past | a older boy | magic wishing stones | Mia | a school fair | for a pound each | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent mia=Recipient stone=Theme at fair=Asset | |
| 2 | wish in a quote | gerund | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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): 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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