The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs, sentence 1

Then Fern hears Nan say, «Fern's the one who's always in trouble.» Fern folds her arms: «I'm the black sheep then, am I?» A black sheep is the one who doesn't fit the family's picture.

Who acts: Fern, Nan, I, black sheep, one · What happens: hear, say, be, fold, not fit · To what, where: one, arms, black sheep, picture · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs» 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 (Fern, Nan, I, black sheep), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

changed act=assert

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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