Not unhappy and not half: litotes, sentence 13
«She's no stranger to trouble» means she knows trouble very well, because she often gets into it.
Who acts: shabby · What happens: be, mean, know, get · To what, where: stranger, trouble, smile · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Not unhappy and not half: litotes» of the language 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 (shabby), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 stranger | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stranger | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stranger | cop |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 stranger | det |
| 5 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 trouble | case |
| 7 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stranger | nmod |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 stranger | punct |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 knows | nsubj |
| 11 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 means | ccomp |
| 12 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 knows | obj |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 well | advmod |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 knows | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gets | punct |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 gets | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gets | nsubj |
| 18 | often | often | ADV | _ | 19 gets | advmod |
| 19 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 knows | advcl |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gets | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | shabby | no stranger | to trouble | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | know | present | shabby | trouble | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer trouble=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | get | present | shabby | smile | often property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into it=Destination |
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:language:050-not-unhappy-and-not-half-litotes.lesson:13.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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