Growing apart, sentence 43

Seeing photos of an old friend having fun without you can sting; reaching out or letting go both work better than staring at the photos.

Who acts: old friend · What happens: see, have, sting, reach out, let, go · To what, where: photos, fun

This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing apart» 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 (old friend), 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	Seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 sting	nsubj
2	photos	photo	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Seeing	obj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 friend	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 friend	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 friend	amod
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 photos	nmod
7	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 friend	acl
8	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 having	obj
9	without	without	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 having	obl
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 sting	aux
12	sting	sting	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 sting	punct
14	reaching	reach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 work	nsubj
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 reaching	compound:prt
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 letting	cc
17	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 reaching	conj
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 letting	xcomp
19	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	20 work	nsubj
20	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sting	conj
21	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 work	advmod
22	than	than	SCONJ	_	23 staring	mark
23	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 work	advcl
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 photos	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 photos	det
26	photos	photo	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 staring	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Seeing	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	gerund		photos of a old friend		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer photo=Stimulus
2	have	gerund	a old friend not said here	fun	without you	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Patient
3	sting	can				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	reach out	gerund				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	let	gerund				tree rules
6	go	infinitive				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	work	present			well property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	stare	gerund			at the photos	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at photo=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:464-growing-apart.lesson:43.

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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