Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 1: a broken spear and a picture on birch-bark, sentence 25

In the picture the black-handled spear «looks as if it was sticking in Daddy's back», because the tooth slipped and the bark was too small.

Who acts: black handled spear, spear, tooth, bark · What happens: handle, look, stick, slip, be · To what, where: back

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 (black handled spear, spear, tooth, bark), 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	_	3 picture	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 picture	det
3	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 looks	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 spear	det
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 spear	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 black	punct
7	handled	handle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 spear	amod
8	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 looks	nsubj
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 looks	punct
10	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 sticking	mark
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 sticking	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sticking	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sticking	aux
15	sticking	stick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 looks	advcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 back	case
17	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 back	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 Daddy	case
19	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sticking	obl
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 looks	punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 slipped	punct
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 slipped	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 tooth	det
24	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 slipped	nsubj
25	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 looks	advcl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 small	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bark	det
28	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 small	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 small	cop
30	too	too	ADV	_	31 small	advmod
31	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 slipped	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 looks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	handle	participle				vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	look in a quote	present	the black handled spear		in the picture	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in picture=Theme
3	stick in a quote	past · progressive	spear	Daddy's back		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in back=Destination
4	slip	past	the tooth			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	is	past	the bark		small property	tree rules

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:25.

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 ×2, 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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