Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 1: a broken spear and a picture on birch-bark, sentence 23
Taffy draws lying flat on her tummy with her legs in the air.
Who acts: Taffy · What happens: draw, lie · To what, where: tummy
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 1: a broken spear and a picture on birch-bark» of the books 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 (Taffy), 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 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 draws | nsubj |
| 2 | draws | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 draws | xcomp |
| 4 | flat | flat | ADV | _ | 3 lying | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 tummy | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 tummy | nmod:poss |
| 7 | tummy | tummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lying | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 legs | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 legs | nmod:poss |
| 10 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tummy | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 air | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 air | det |
| 13 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 legs | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 draws | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | present | Taffy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lie | gerund | Taffy not said here | Chief's tummy with Chief's legs in the air | flat property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tummy=Location |
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:books:084-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear.lesson:23.
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): no change. 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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