The bulldog next door who never likes you, sentence 17

When Lily drops her ice cream cone through the Doyles' fence, she knocks and asks Mr Doyle to fetch it.

Who acts: Lily · What happens: drop, knock, ask, fetch · To what, where: cream cone, fence, Mr, cone

This is a sentence of the lesson «The bulldog next door who never likes you» 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 (Lily), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 drops	mark
2	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 drops	nsubj
3	drops	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 knocks	advcl
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 cone	nmod:poss
5	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cream	compound
6	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cone	compound
7	cone	cone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drops	obj
8	through	through	ADP	_	12 fence	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Doyles	det
10	Doyles	doyle	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 fence	nmod:poss
11	'	's	PART	_	10 Doyles	case
12	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drops	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 knocks	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 knocks	nsubj
15	knocks	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 asks	cc
17	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 knocks	conj
18	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 asks	obj
19	Doyle	Doyle	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Mr	flat
20	to	to	PART	_	21 fetch	mark
21	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 asks	xcomp
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fetch	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 knocks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	drop	present	Lily	Lily's cream cone		the Doyles's fence	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cone=Theme through fence=Destination
2	knock	present	Lily				vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	ask speech: ask	present	Lily not said here		Mr		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent mr=Recipient clause=Topic
4	fetch not said to happen	to-infinitive	Lily not said here	cone			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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:456-the-bulldog-next-door-who-never-likes-you.lesson:17.

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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