--- title: She went inside and came back with a saucer of milk and an old towel… — Reading a story: characters, plot and setting · tree and pragmatics description: She went inside and came back with a saucer of milk and an old towel.» Nobody says Nell is kind and patient, but her actions show it: she helps even after the kitten hisses. Who acts: Nell, Nobody, actions, kitten. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nell, Nobody, actions, kitten), 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:3 # text = She went inside and came back with a saucer of milk and an old towel.» Nobody says Nell is kind and patient, but her actions show it: she helps even after the kitten hisses. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 inside inside ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 back back ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 saucer saucer NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 towel towel NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 18 Nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 19 nsubj _ _ 19 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 20 Nell Nell PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 ccomp _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 patient patient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 actions action NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:parataxis 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 34 even even ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 35 after after SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 kitten kitten NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 hisses hiss VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | Nell | | | | | inside *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **come back** | past | Nell *not said here* | | | | | with a saucer of milk and a old towel | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Nobody | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Nell | | | | | kind *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** *in a quote* | | Nell *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **show** *in a quote* | present | Nell's actions | kitten | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | | 7 | **help** *in a quote* | present | Nell | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **hiss** *in a quote* | present | the kitten | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **act** *in a quote* | | Nell | | | | | | nom action «act intransitive»: 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:022-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting.lesson:3`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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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