Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper, sentence 10

By nine next morning half the street is there with brooms, a ladder and tea; Big Steve boards the window, Mr Grimshaw sweeps glass, Sam hands out biscuits.

Who acts: street, Big Steve, Mr, Sam · What happens: be, board, sweep, hand out · To what, where: window, glass, biscuits

This is a sentence of the lesson «Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper» 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 (street, Big Steve, Mr, 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	By	by	ADP	_	4 morning	case
2	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 morning	nummod
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 morning	amod
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 is	obl
5	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	7 street	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 street	det
7	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 is	nsubj
8	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 is	expl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 brooms	case
11	brooms	broom	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 is	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ladder	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 ladder	det
14	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brooms	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 tea	cc
16	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ladder	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 boards	punct
18	Big	Big	PROPN	_	19 Steve	flat
19	Steve	Steve	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 boards	nsubj
20	boards	board	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 is	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 window	det
22	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 boards	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sweeps	punct
24	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 sweeps	nsubj
25	Grimshaw	Grimshaw	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Mr	flat
26	sweeps	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 is	conj
27	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sweeps	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 hands	punct
29	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 hands	nsubj
30	hands	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 sweeps	conj
31	out	out	ADP	_	30 hands	compound:prt
32	biscuits	biscuit	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 hands	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 is	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	half street		there	morning	with brooms and a ladder and tea	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	board	present	Big Steve	the window				vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme window=Location
3	sweep	present	Mr	glass				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme glass=Trajectory
4	hand out	present	Sam	biscuits				vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent biscuit=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:483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper.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, 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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