How pets feel and saying goodbye, sentence 8

A boy in Dublin was told his cat had just gone away when it died; he waited at the window for weeks, and he felt worse when he learnt the truth later.

Who acts: cat, boy · What happens: tell, go away, die, wait, feel, learn · To what, where: boy, window, truth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «How pets feel and saying goodbye» 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 (cat, boy), 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	6 told	nsubj:pass
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Dublin	case
4	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	aux:pass
6	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 cat	nmod:poss
8	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gone	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gone	aux
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 gone	advmod
11	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 told	ccomp
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 gone	advmod
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 died	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 died	nsubj
15	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gone	advcl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 waited	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 waited	nsubj
18	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	parataxis
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 window	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 window	det
21	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 waited	obl
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 weeks	case
23	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 waited	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 felt	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 felt	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 felt	nsubj
27	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 waited	conj
28	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 felt	xcomp
29	when	when	SCONJ	_	31 learnt	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 learnt	nsubj
31	learnt	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 felt	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 truth	det
33	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 learnt	obj
34	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 learnt	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		a boy in Dublin				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go away	past · perfect	boy's cat				away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	die	past	cat					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	wait	past	boy		the window	week		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at window=Location
5	feel	past	boy				bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	learn	past	boy	the truth			late property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Topic

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:066-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye.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): no change. 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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