Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 1: a broken spear and a picture on birch-bark, sentence 8

Taffy tries to tell him to go and fetch the spear; he hands her a piece of birch-bark to show he means no harm, and she thinks he wants her Mummy's address.

Who acts: Taffy, Daddy, Mummy · What happens: try, tell, go, fetch, hand, show · To what, where: Taffy, spear, piece, Daddy, harm, address · 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 (Taffy, Daddy, 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	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tries	nsubj
2	tries	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 tell	mark
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tries	xcomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fetch	cc
9	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 go	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 spear	det
11	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fetch	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 hands	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hands	nsubj
14	hands	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tries	parataxis
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hands	iobj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 piece	det
17	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hands	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 bark	case
19	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bark	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 birch	punct
21	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 piece	nmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 show	mark
23	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 hands	advcl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 means	nsubj
25	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 show	ccomp
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 harm	det
27	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 means	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 thinks	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 thinks	cc
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 thinks	nsubj
31	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tries	conj
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 wants	nsubj
33	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 thinks	ccomp
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 Mummy	nmod:poss
35	Mummy	Mummy	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 address	nmod:poss
36	's	's	PART	_	35 Mummy	case
37	address	address	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wants	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tries	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	try	present	Taffy			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	Taffy not said here		Taffy	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	Taffy not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fetch	infinitive	Taffy not said here	the spear		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Theme
5	hand	present	Taffy	a piece of birch bark	Daddy	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination piece=Theme
6	show	to-infinitive	Taffy not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	mean	present	Taffy	no harm		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Topic
8	think speech: other	present	Daddy			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
9	want	present	Taffy	Daddy's Mummy's address		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot address=Theme
10	address		Daddy's Mummy			nom address «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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:8.

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 ×2, R7-rel-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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/84-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear/8/