--- title: Maddie walks over and simply stands next to him, arms folded, saying… — Standing by a friend · tree and pragmatics description: Maddie walks over and simply stands next to him, arms folded, saying nothing. Who acts: Maddie. A sentence of the lesson «Standing by a friend» of the everyday 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/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/6/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Standing by a friend](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/) / 6 # Standing by a friend, sentence 6 Maddie walks over and simply stands next to him, arms folded, saying nothing. **Who acts:** Maddie · **What happens:** walk over, stand, fold, say · **To what, where:** arms, Maddie, nothing · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Standing by a friend» of the everyday 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 (Maddie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:370-standing-by-a-friend.lesson:6 # text = Maddie walks over and simply stands next to him, arms folded, saying nothing. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 370-standing-by-a-friend.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 Maddie Maddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 over over ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 simply simply ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 next next ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 12 folded fold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 15 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 14 obj _ _ 16 . . 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 | **walk over** | present | Maddie | arms | | | | over *property* | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **stand** | present | Maddie *not said here* | | Maddie | | | next, simply *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **fold** | participle | | arms *not said here* | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Maddie *not said here* | nothing | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=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:everyday:370-standing-by-a-friend.lesson:6`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Standing by a friend, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/5/) - next →: [Standing by a friend, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/)