--- title: "Once upon a time there was a girl called Ella who lived in a house"… — Openings that hook the reader · tree and pragmatics description: "Once upon a time there was a girl called Ella who lived in a house" tells us little and asks nothing, while "'Run!' shouted Max. Who acts: girl, Run. 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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 (girl, Run), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:040-openings-that-hook-the-reader.lesson:1 # text = "Once upon a time there was a girl called Ella who lived in a house" tells us little and asks nothing, while "'Run!' shouted Max. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 040-openings-that-hook-the-reader.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 2 Once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 7 advmod _ _ 3 upon upon ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 7 expl _ _ 7 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 nsubj _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 10 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 Ella Ella PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 xcomp _ _ 12 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det 16 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 18 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:conj 23 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 22 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 while while SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 27 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 28 Run Run PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 29 ! ! PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ 30 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 31 shouted shout VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 32 Max Max PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** *in a quote* | past | a girl | | | there | | once *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **call** *in a quote* | participle | | a girl *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **live** *in a quote* | past | a girl | | | a house | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | | little | us | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient little=Topic | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | | nothing | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Recipient | | 6 | **shout** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | Run | Max | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent max=Topic | 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:040-openings-that-hook-the-reader.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-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: [Openings that hook the reader, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/40-openings-that-hook-the-reader/0/) - next →: [Openings that hook the reader, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/40-openings-that-hook-the-reader/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/40-openings-that-hook-the-reader/)