--- title: An ending where everything was a dream is a well-known cliché that m… — Openings that hook the reader · tree and pragmatics description: An ending where everything was a dream is a well-known cliché that makes the story feel as if it did not matter. Who acts: everything, ending, known cliché, it. 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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 (everything, ending, known cliché, it), 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:15 # text = An ending where everything was a dream is a well-known cliché that makes the story feel as if it did not matter. # 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 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 ending ending NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 3 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 7 advmod _ _ 4 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 7 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 acl:relcl _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 10 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 12 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 amod _ _ 13 cliché cliché NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det 17 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 feel feel NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 as as SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 20 if if SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 matter matter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advcl 25 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | everything | a dream | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **know** | participle | | | | | | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is a** | present | a ending | a known cliché | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | present | a known cliché | story feel | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset feel=Product | | 5 | **not** **matter** | past · do-support | it | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | 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:15`. **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. **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, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/40-openings-that-hook-the-reader/14/) - next →: [Openings that hook the reader, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/40-openings-that-hook-the-reader/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/40-openings-that-hook-the-reader/)