At the café: ordering in French, sentence 3
Picture Riley in a Paris café waiting ages for the bill: the waiter isn't rude, he is being polite by not rushing you, and he brings the bill only when you ask.
Who acts: you, Paris café, waiter, Riley · What happens: picture, wait, not be, be, not rush, bring · To what, where: Riley, Paris café, ages, you, bill
This is a sentence of the lesson «At the café: ordering in French» of the french 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, Paris café, waiter, Riley), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Riley | Riley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 café | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 café | det |
| 5 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 café | compound |
| 6 | café | café | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obl |
| 7 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 café | acl |
| 8 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 waiting | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 bill | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bill | det |
| 11 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ages | nmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 rude | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 waiter | det |
| 14 | waiter | waiter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rude | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 rude | cop |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 rude | advmod |
| 17 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 polite | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 polite | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 polite | aux |
| 21 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 polite | cop |
| 22 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 23 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 25 rushing | mark |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 rushing | advmod |
| 25 | rushing | rush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 polite | advcl |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 rushing | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 brings | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 brings | cc |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 brings | nsubj |
| 30 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 bill | det |
| 32 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 brings | obj |
| 33 | only | only | ADV | _ | 32 bill | advmod |
| 34 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 36 ask | mark |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 ask | nsubj |
| 36 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 brings | advcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | Riley | a Paris café | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent riley=Theme | |||
| 2 | wait | gerund | a Paris café not said here | ages | for the bill | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not is | present | the waiter | rude property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present · progressive | Riley | polite property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not rush | gerund | Riley not said here | you | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Agent | ||||
| 6 | bring | present | Riley | the bill | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bill=Theme | ||||
| 7 | ask speech: ask | present | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:french:019-at-the-cafe-ordering-in-french.lesson:3.
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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