Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 1: a broken spear and a picture on birch-bark, sentence 24

She draws only the beavers' heads, because she says she can't draw beavers, and she draws Mummy with her hands up because Mummy will be so pleased to see the Stranger-man.

Who acts: Chief, Mummy · What happens: draw, say, not draw, be, see · To what, where: heads, beavers, Mummy, Stranger man · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Chief, Mummy), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 draws	nsubj
2	draws	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	7 heads	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 beavers	det
5	beavers	beaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 heads	nmod:poss
6	'	's	PART	_	5 beavers	case
7	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 draws	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 says	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 says	nsubj
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 draws	advcl
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 draw	nsubj
13	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 draw	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 draw	advmod
15	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 says	ccomp
16	beavers	beaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 draw	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 draws	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 draws	cc
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 draws	nsubj
20	draws	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 draws	conj
21	Mummy	Mummy	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 draws	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 hands	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 hands	nmod:poss
24	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 draws	obl
25	up	up	ADV	_	24 hands	advmod
26	because	because	SCONJ	_	31 pleased	mark
27	Mummy	Mummy	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 pleased	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 pleased	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 pleased	cop
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 pleased	advmod
31	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 draws	advcl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 see	mark
33	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 pleased	xcomp
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 man	det
35	Stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 man	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 Stranger	punct
37	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 see	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 draws	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	draw	present	Chief	the beavers's heads		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	Chief			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not draw	can	Chief	beavers		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beaver=Theme
4	draw	present	Chief	Mummy	with Chief's hands	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mummy=Theme
5	is	future	Mummy		pleased property	tree rules
6	see	to-infinitive	Mummy not said here	the Stranger man		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus

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:24.

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. 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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