Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls, sentence 0

In Bambi, a spotted fawn wobbles on thin legs, Thumper the rabbit thumps his foot, Flower the skunk blushes and Friend Owl spins his head all the way round.

Who acts: spotted fawn, Thumper, Flower, Friend · What happens: spot, wobble, thump, blush, spin · To what, where: Bambi, foot, head

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls» of the biology 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 (spotted fawn, Thumper, Flower, Friend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 Bambi	case
2	Bambi	Bambi	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 wobbles	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Bambi	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fawn	det
5	spotted	spot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 fawn	amod
6	fawn	fawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wobbles	nsubj
7	wobbles	wobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 thumps	parataxis
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 legs	case
9	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 legs	amod
10	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wobbles	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thumps	punct
12	Thumper	Thumper	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 thumps	nsubj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rabbit	det
14	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Thumper	appos
15	thumps	thump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 foot	nmod:poss
17	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thumps	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 blushes	punct
19	Flower	flower	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 blushes	nsubj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 blushes	det
21	skunk	skunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Flower	appos
22	blushes	blush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 thumps	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 spins	cc
24	Friend	friend	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 spins	nsubj
25	Owl	Owl	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Friend	flat
26	spins	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 blushes	conj
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 head	nmod:poss
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 spins	obj
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 way	det:predet
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 way	det
31	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 spins	obl
32	round	round	ADV	_	31 way	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wobbles	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spot	participle					vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
2	wobble	present	a spotted fawn		Bambi	on thin legs	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bambi=Location
3	thump	present	Thumper	Thumper's foot			vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient
4	blush	present	Flower				vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	spin	present	Friend	Thumper's head		all way obl	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=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, 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:biology:143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls.lesson:0.

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, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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