--- title: She didn't shout; she asked gently, «What really happened, love?» Jo… — Stories that change · tree and pragmatics description: She didn't shout; she asked gently, «What really happened, love?» Josh had been in a scuffle and was scared to say. Who acts: She, Josh. A sentence of the lesson «Stories that change» 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/449-stories-that-change/2/) [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/) / [Stories that change](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/449-stories-that-change/) / 2 # Stories that change, sentence 2 She didn't shout; she asked gently, «What really happened, love?» Josh had been in a scuffle and was scared to say. **Who acts:** She, Josh · **What happens:** not shout, ask, happen, love, be, say · **To what, where:** scuffle · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Stories that change» 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 (She, Josh), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:449-stories-that-change.lesson:2 # text = She didn't shout; she asked gently, «What really happened, love?» Josh had been in a scuffle and was scared to say. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 449-stories-that-change.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 shout shout VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 ; ; PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 8 gently gently ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 11 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 13 nsubj _ _ 12 really really ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 love love VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 18 Josh Josh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 19 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 20 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 23 cop _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 scuffle scuffle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 conj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **shout** *speech: express* | past · do-support | She | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | she | | | | | gently *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **happen** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **love** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is** | past · perfect | Josh | | | a scuffle | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | past | Josh *not said here* | | | | | scared *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Josh *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:everyday:449-stories-that-change.lesson:2`. **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): 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: [Stories that change, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/449-stories-that-change/0/) - next →: [Stories that change, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/449-stories-that-change/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/449-stories-that-change/)