A stranger's story, sentence 13
Grace said no and walked into the shop; the shopkeeper rang her dad, who'd never heard of him.
Who acts: Grace, shopkeeper, dad · What happens: say, walk, ring, not hear · To what, where: shop, dad · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «A stranger's story» 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 (Grace, shopkeeper, dad), 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 | Grace | Grace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 said | ccomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 walked | cc |
| 5 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 shop | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shop | det |
| 8 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walked | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 rang | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shopkeeper | det |
| 11 | shopkeeper | shopkeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rang | nsubj |
| 12 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | parataxis |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 dad | nmod:poss |
| 14 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rang | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 heard | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 heard | nsubj |
| 17 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 heard | aux |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 heard | advmod |
| 19 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 dad | acl:relcl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 heard | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Grace | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | walk | past | Grace not said here | into the shop result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into shop=Result | ||||
| 3 | ring | past | the shopkeeper | Grace's dad | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dad=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not hear | past · perfect | Grace's dad | of dad | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of he=Stimulus |
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:446-a-strangers-story.lesson:13.
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, 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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