Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe comes, sentence 0
Taffy finishes her picture, proud of it, and asks if the Stranger-man understands.
Who acts: Taffy, Stranger man · What happens: finish, ask, understand · To what, where: picture
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe comes» 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, Stranger man), 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 finishes | nsubj |
| 2 | finishes | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 picture | nmod:poss |
| 4 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 finishes | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 proud | punct |
| 6 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 finishes | advcl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 proud | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 asks | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 asks | cc |
| 11 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 finishes | conj |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 understands | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 14 | Stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 man | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Stranger | punct |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 understands | nsubj |
| 17 | understands | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 asks | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 finishes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | present | Taffy | Taffy's picture | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector picture=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | Taffy not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | understand a condition, not said to happen | present | the Stranger man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:085-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes.lesson:0.
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): 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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