--- title: When Lily drops her ice cream cone through the Doyles' fence, she kn… — The bulldog next door who never likes you · tree and pragmatics description: When Lily drops her ice cream cone through the Doyles' fence, she knocks and asks Mr Doyle to fetch it. Who acts: Lily. A sentence of the lesson «The bulldog next door who never likes you» 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/456-the-bulldog-next-door-who-never-likes-you/17/) [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/) / [The bulldog next door who never likes…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/456-the-bulldog-next-door-who-never-likes-you/) / 17 # The bulldog next door who never likes you, sentence 17 When Lily drops her ice cream cone through the Doyles' fence, she knocks and asks Mr Doyle to fetch it. **Who acts:** Lily · **What happens:** drop, knock, ask, fetch · **To what, where:** cream cone, fence, Mr, cone This is a sentence of the lesson «The bulldog next door who never likes you» 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 (Lily), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:456-the-bulldog-next-door-who-never-likes-you.lesson:17 # text = When Lily drops her ice cream cone through the Doyles' fence, she knocks and asks Mr Doyle to fetch it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 456-the-bulldog-next-door-who-never-likes-you.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 When when SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 drops drop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 5 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 cream cream NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 cone cone NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 through through ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Doyles doyle PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 ' 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 fence fence NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 knocks knock VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 18 Mr Mr PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 Doyle Doyle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 flat _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 fetch fetch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drop** | present | Lily | Lily's cream cone | | the Doyles's fence | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cone=Theme through fence=Destination | | 2 | **knock** | present | Lily | | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Lily *not said here* | | Mr | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent mr=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **fetch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Lily *not said here* | cone | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:456-the-bulldog-next-door-who-never-likes-you.lesson:17`. **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. 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