Stories that change, sentence 2

She didn't shout; she asked gently, «What really happened, love?» Josh had been in a scuffle and was scared to say.

Who acts: She, Josh · What happens: not shout, ask, happen, love, be, say · To what, where: scuffle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Stories that change» 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 (She, Josh), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shout	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shout	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 shout	advmod
4	shout	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 asked	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 asked	nsubj
7	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shout	parataxis
8	gently	gently	ADV	_	7 asked	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 happened	punct
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 happened	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 happened	nsubj
12	really	really	ADV	_	13 happened	advmod
13	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 asked	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 love	punct
15	love	love	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 happened	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 shout	punct
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	23 scuffle	punct
18	Josh	Josh	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 scuffle	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 scuffle	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 scuffle	cop
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 scuffle	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 scuffle	det
23	scuffle	scuffle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shout	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 scared	cc
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 scared	cop
26	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 scuffle	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 say	mark
28	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 scared	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shout	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not shout speech: express	past · do-support	She			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ask speech: ask	past	she		gently property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	happen in a quote	past				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	love in a quote	infinitive				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past · perfect	Josh	a scuffle		tree rules
6	is	past	Josh not said here		scared property	tree rules
7	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Josh not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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:449-stories-that-change.lesson:2.

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): R7-rel-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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