--- title: The shopkeeper let them stay until the boys had gone and rang Freddi… — Walking away · tree and pragmatics description: The shopkeeper let them stay until the boys had gone and rang Freddie's mum. Who acts: shopkeeper, mates, boys. A sentence of the lesson «Walking away» 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/371-walking-away/11/) [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/) / [Walking away](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/) / 11 # Walking away, sentence 11 The shopkeeper let them stay until the boys had gone and rang Freddie's mum. **Who acts:** shopkeeper, mates, boys · **What happens:** let, stay, go, ring · **To what, where:** mates, mum This is a sentence of the lesson «Walking away» 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 (shopkeeper, mates, boys), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:371-walking-away.lesson:11 # text = The shopkeeper let them stay until the boys had gone and rang Freddie's mum. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 371-walking-away.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 shopkeeper shopkeeper NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 let let VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 4 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 until until SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 9 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 rang ring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 Freddie Freddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | past | the shopkeeper | mates *= mate* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **stay** | infinitive | mates *= mate* *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **go** | past · perfect | the boys | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **ring** | past | the shopkeeper *not said here* | Freddie's mum | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mum=Theme | 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:371-walking-away.lesson:11`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Walking away, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/10/) - next →: [Walking away, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/)