--- title: Personification gives human actions or feelings to non-human things:… — Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, allit… · tree and pragmatics description: Personification gives human actions or feelings to non-human things: "the wind screamed", "the moon smiled". Who acts: Personification, wind, moon. A sentence of the lesson «Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration/8/) [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/) / [Poetry: simile, metaphor, personificat…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration/) / 8 # Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, sentence 8 Personification gives human actions or feelings to non-human things: "the wind screamed", "the moon smiled". **Who acts:** Personification, wind, moon · **What happens:** give, scream, smile · **To what, where:** human actions · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration» 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 (Personification, wind, moon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:046-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration.lesson:8 # text = Personification gives human actions or feelings to non-human things: "the wind screamed", "the moon smiled". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 046-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Personification personification NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 actions action NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 feelings feeling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 non-human non-human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 screamed scream VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 smiled smile VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 . . 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 | **give** | present | Personification | human actions or feelings | | | | to non-human things | tree rules | | 2 | **scream** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | the wind | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **smile** *in a quote* | past | the moon | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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:046-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration.lesson:8`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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