--- title: Every story has characters (who), a setting (where and when) and a p… — Reading a story: characters, plot and setting · tree and pragmatics description: Every story has characters (who), a setting (where and when) and a plot (what happens). Who acts: story, plot. A sentence of the lesson «Reading a story: characters, plot and setting» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/22-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting/0/) [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/) / [Reading a story: characters, plot and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/22-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting/) / 0 # Reading a story: characters, plot and setting, sentence 0 Every story has characters (who), a setting (where and when) and a plot (what happens). **Who acts:** story, plot · **What happens:** have, happen · **To what, where:** characters This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading a story: characters, plot and setting» 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 (story, plot), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:022-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting.lesson:0 # text = Every story has characters (who), a setting (where and when) and a plot (what happens). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 022-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting.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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 characters character NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nmod 7 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 setting setting NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 12 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 10 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nmod 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 conj _ _ 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 plot plot NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 20 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 21 nsubj _ _ 21 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | every story | characters and a setting | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent character=Patient | | 2 | **happen** | present | a plot | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:022-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting.lesson:0`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Author's choices: why this word, why t…, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/21-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way/25/) - next →: [Reading a story: characters, plot and…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/22-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/22-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting/)