Stories that change, sentence 27

And Grace's friend said «I didn't eat your sweets, I swear on my mum's life, I'd never, honestly, I promise» — then Grace found the wrapper in her bag.

Who acts: friend, Grace · What happens: say, not eat, swear, not promise, find · To what, where: sweets, life, wrapper, bag · 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 (friend, Grace), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 said	cc
2	Grace	Grace	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 friend	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Grace	case
4	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 eat	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 eat	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 eat	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 eat	advmod
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sweets	nmod:poss
12	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 eat	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 swear	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 swear	nsubj
15	swear	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 eat	parataxis
16	on	on	ADP	_	20 life	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mum	nmod:poss
18	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 life	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 mum	case
20	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 swear	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 eat	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 promise	nsubj
23	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 promise	aux
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 promise	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 never	punct
26	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	29 promise	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 honestly	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 promise	nsubj
29	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 eat	conj
30	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
31	—	-	PUNCT	_	29 promise	punct
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 found	advmod
33	Grace	Grace	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 found	nsubj
34	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 promise	parataxis
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 wrapper	det
36	wrapper	wrapper	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 found	obj
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 bag	case
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 bag	nmod:poss
39	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 found	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Grace's friend					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not eat in a quote	past · do-support	Grace's friend = friend	your sweets				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Patient
3	swear in a quote	present	Grace's friend = friend		my mum's life			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not promise speech: promise in a quote	would	Grace's friend = friend				honestly property	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	find	past	Grace	the wrapper	Grace's bag	then		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrapper=Topic

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:27.

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. 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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