Cats and dogs up close, sentence 7

A boy in Ohio tried to take a bone away from his dog while it was eating; the dog snapped and bit his hand, and he needed stitches.

Who acts: boy, cheek, dog · What happens: try, take, eat, snap, bite, need · To what, where: bone, hand, stitches

This is a sentence of the lesson «Cats and dogs up close» 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 (boy, cheek, dog), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tried	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ohio	case
4	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 take	mark
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tried	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bone	det
9	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obj
10	away	away	ADV	_	7 take	advmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 dog	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 dog	nmod:poss
13	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 away	obl
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 eating	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 eating	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 eating	aux
17	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 take	advcl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 dog	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dog	det
20	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 snapped	nsubj
21	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 eating	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 bit	cc
23	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 snapped	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 hand	nmod:poss
25	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bit	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 needed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 needed	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 needed	nsubj
29	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 snapped	conj
30	stitches	stitch	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 needed	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tried	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	past	a boy in Ohio			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	a boy in Ohio not said here	a bone	away property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme
3	eat	past · progressive	cheek			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	snap	past	the dog			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
5	bite	past	the dog not said here	boy's hand		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
6	need	past	boy	stitches		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot stitch=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:061-cats-and-dogs-up-close.lesson:7.

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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