Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whiting, turtles, the Mock Turtle, the Gryphon and the Caterpillar, sentence 14
A Gryphon, or griffin, is a creature of old legends with the head and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion; it never existed, though some people think ancient fossil skulls found in the desert may have helped the story along.
Who acts: Gryphon, people, ancient fossil skulls · What happens: be, not exist, think, find, help · To what, where: creature, ancient fossil skulls, desert, story · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whiting, turtles, the Mock Turtle, the Gryphon and the Caterpillar» 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 (Gryphon, people, ancient fossil skulls), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Gryphon | det |
| 2 | Gryphon | gryphon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 creature | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 griffin | punct |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 griffin | cc |
| 5 | griffin | griffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Gryphon | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Gryphon | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 creature | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 creature | det |
| 9 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 legends | case |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 legends | amod |
| 12 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 creature | nmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 head | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 head | det |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 legends | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wings | cc |
| 17 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 head | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 eagle | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 eagle | det |
| 20 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 head | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 body | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 body | det |
| 23 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 eagle | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 lion | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 lion | det |
| 26 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 body | nmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 existed | punct |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 existed | nsubj |
| 29 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 30 existed | advmod |
| 30 | existed | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 creature | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 think | punct |
| 32 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 35 think | mark |
| 33 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 people | det |
| 34 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 think | nsubj |
| 35 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 existed | advcl |
| 36 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 skulls | amod |
| 37 | fossil | fossil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 skulls | compound |
| 38 | skulls | skull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 helped | nsubj |
| 39 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 skulls | acl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 desert | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 desert | det |
| 42 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 found | obl |
| 43 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 helped | aux |
| 44 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 45 helped | aux |
| 45 | helped | help | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 think | ccomp |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 story | det |
| 47 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 helped | obj |
| 48 | along | along | ADV | _ | 45 helped | advmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 creature | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a Gryphon or griffin | a creature | of old legends with the head of a eagle and the body of a lion and wings | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not exist | past | Gryphon | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | some people | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find | participle | ancient fossil skulls not said here | the desert | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | help | may · perfect | ancient fossil skulls | the story | along property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Beneficiary |
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:402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon.lesson:14.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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