--- title: Not a word all the way, then at the door: «Thank you, lad.» Sam's mu… — The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man n… · tree and pragmatics description: Not a word all the way, then at the door: «Thank you, lad.» Sam's mum tells him Mr Grimshaw's wife died last year and he lives alone. Who acts: mum, wife, Sam. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mum, wife, Sam), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:473-the-ball-over-the-fence-and-the-grumpy-old-man-next-door.lesson:10 # text = Not a word all the way, then at the door: «Thank you, lad.» Sam's mum tells him Mr Grimshaw's wife died last year and he lives alone. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 473-the-ball-over-the-fence-and-the-grumpy-old-man-next-door.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 ×1 1 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 4 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 6 det:predet _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 Thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 lad lad NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 Mr Mr PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ _ 26 Grimshaw Grimshaw PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 flat _ _ 27 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 28 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 30 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl:unmarked _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 35 alone alone ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present | | | Sam | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Sam's mum | a word and all way and lad | Sam | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **die** | past | Mr's wife | | | | year | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **live** | present | Sam | | | | | alone *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:473-the-ball-over-the-fence-and-the-grumpy-old-man-next-door.lesson:10`. **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 ×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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