The only child: all the attention and wanting a sibling, sentence 24

«You're my best pal, Fionn,» she says, and every Saturday she wants to go to the shops together, while Fionn wants to play football with the lads.

Who acts: You, Kilkenny, Fionn · What happens: be, say, want, go, play · To what, where: best pal, shops, football · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The only child: all the attention and wanting a sibling» 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 (You, Kilkenny, Fionn), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

narrate

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

changed act=narrate, polarity=none

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.

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