The Second World War, sentence 12

Anne Frank, a Jewish girl, wrote a diary while hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam, and it tells one girl's story to millions of readers.

Who acts: Anne, diary · What happens: write, hide, tell · To what, where: diary, Nazis, story, millions · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Second World War» of the history 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 (Anne, diary), 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	Anne	Anne	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 wrote	nsubj
2	Frank	Frank	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Anne	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 girl	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 girl	det
5	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 girl	amod
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Anne	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Anne	punct
8	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 diary	det
10	diary	diary	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wrote	obj
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 hiding	mark
12	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 wrote	advcl
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 Nazis	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Nazis	det
15	Nazis	Nazi	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 hiding	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 Amsterdam	case
17	Amsterdam	Amsterdam	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 hiding	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tells	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 tells	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 tells	nsubj
21	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 wrote	conj
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 girl	nummod
23	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 story	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 girl	case
25	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tells	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 millions	case
27	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 tells	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 readers	case
29	readers	reader	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 millions	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	write	past	Anne	a diary				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diary=Theme
2	hide	gerund	Anne not said here			the Nazis	in Amsterdam	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from nazi=Beneficiary
3	tell speech: assert	present	diary	one girl's story	millions of readers			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to million=Recipient

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:history:034-the-second-world-war.lesson:12.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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