--- title: Italics, the slanted letters in «*Don't look back,* she told herself… — Author's choices: why this word, why this way · tree and pragmatics description: Italics, the slanted letters in «*Don't look back,* she told herself», often show a character's thoughts. Who acts: danger, Italics, character. A sentence of the lesson «Author's choices: why this word, why this way» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/21-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Author's choices: why this word, why t…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/21-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way/) / 7 # Author's choices: why this word, why this way, sentence 7 Italics, the slanted letters in «\*Don't look back,\* she told herself», often show a character's thoughts. **Who acts:** danger, Italics, character · **What happens:** not look back, tell, show, think · **To what, where:** danger, thoughts · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Author's choices: why this word, why this way» of the english 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 (danger, Italics, character), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:021-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way.lesson:7 # text = Italics, the slanted letters in «*Don't look back,* she told herself», often show a character's thoughts. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 021-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way.lesson # annotation = 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 1 Italics italic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 slanted slanted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 « « PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 8 * * PUNCT NFP _ 11 punct _ _ 9 Do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 12 back back ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 14 * * PUNCT NFP _ 16 punct _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 17 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 16 obj _ _ 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 16 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 often often ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 character character NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 thoughts thought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **look back** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | danger | danger | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient | | 3 | **show** | present | Italics in « and the slanted letters | a character's thoughts | | | | often *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent thought=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **think** | | a character | | | | | | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:english:021-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way.lesson:7`. **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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