The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door, sentence 8
One icy morning Sam sees Mr Grimshaw wobbling up his slippery path with four bags of shopping.
Who acts: Sam, Mr · What happens: see, wobble up · To what, where: slippery path · 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 (Sam, Mr), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 morning | nummod |
| 2 | icy | icy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sees | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sees | nsubj |
| 5 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 wobbling | nsubj |
| 7 | Grimshaw | Grimshaw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mr | flat |
| 8 | wobbling | wobble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 sees | ccomp |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 wobbling | compound:prt |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 path | nmod:poss |
| 11 | slippery | slippery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 path | amod |
| 12 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wobbling | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 bags | case |
| 14 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 bags | nummod |
| 15 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wobbling | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 shopping | case |
| 17 | shopping | shopping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bags | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sees | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | Sam | morning | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | wobble up | gerund | Mr | Mr's slippery path | with four bags of shopping | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location path=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:8.
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. 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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