Sleepovers and spooky stories, sentence 6
The story of the man with a hook for a hand is an urban legend that has been told since at least the 1950s.
Who acts: story · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: urban legend · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sleepovers and spooky stories» of the myths 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 (story), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 legend | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 man | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 story | nmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 hook | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hook | det |
| 8 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | nmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 hand | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hand | det |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hook | nmod |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 legend | cop |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 legend | det |
| 14 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 legend | amod |
| 15 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 told | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 told | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 told | aux:pass |
| 19 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 legend | acl:relcl |
| 20 | since | since | ADP | _ | 24 1950s | case |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 least | case |
| 22 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 1950s | nmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 1950s | det |
| 24 | 1950s | 1950 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 19 told | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 legend | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the story of the man with a hook for a hand | a urban legend | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present · perfect · passive | a urban legend | since the 1950s at least | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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:myths:026-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories.lesson:6.
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): R7-rel-agree ×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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