The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door, sentence 10

Not a word all the way, then at the door: «Thank you, lad.» Sam's mum tells him Mr Grimshaw's wife died last year and he lives alone.

Who acts: mum, wife, Sam · What happens: thank, tell, die, live · To what, where: Sam, word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door» 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 (mum, wife, Sam), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 word	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 word	det
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tells	obl
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 way	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 word	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 door	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 door	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 door	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 door	det
11	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 word	appos
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 door	punct
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 Thank	punct
14	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 word	parataxis
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 Thank	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lad	punct
17	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 word	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 word	punct
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 .	punct
20	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 mum	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 Sam	case
22	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tells	nsubj
23	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tells	obj
25	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 wife	nmod:poss
26	Grimshaw	Grimshaw	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Mr	flat
27	's	's	PART	_	25 Mr	case
28	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 died	nsubj
29	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 tells	ccomp
30	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 year	amod
31	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 died	obl:unmarked
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 lives	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 lives	nsubj
34	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 died	conj
35	alone	alone	ADV	_	34 lives	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 word	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank in a quote	present			Sam			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	present	Sam's mum	a word and all way and lad	Sam			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	die	past	Mr's wife			year		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	live	present	Sam				alone property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:473-the-ball-over-the-fence-and-the-grumpy-old-man-next-door.lesson:10.

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): 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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