Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe comes, sentence 12
Taffy draws «very hard and rather scratchily» and puts the spear into the Stranger-man's hand in the picture «just to remind you that you're to bring it».
Who acts: Taffy · What happens: draw, put, remind, bring · To what, where: spear, hand, you, 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), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 hard | punct |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 hard | advmod |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 draws | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 scratchily | cc |
| 7 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 8 scratchily | advmod |
| 8 | scratchily | scratchily | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 hard | conj |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 hard | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 puts | cc |
| 11 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 draws | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 spear | det |
| 13 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 puts | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 hand | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 16 | Stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 man | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Stranger | punct |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hand | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 man | case |
| 20 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 puts | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 picture | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 picture | det |
| 23 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 puts | obl |
| 24 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 27 remind | punct |
| 25 | just | just | ADV | _ | 27 remind | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 remind | mark |
| 27 | remind | remind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 puts | advcl |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 remind | iobj |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 're | mark |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 're | nsubj |
| 31 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 remind | ccomp |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 bring | mark |
| 33 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 're | xcomp |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 bring | obj |
| 35 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 27 remind | punct |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 draws | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | present | Taffy | hard property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | put | present | Taffy not said here | the spear | the Stranger man's hand | in the picture | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spear=Theme in picture=Destination | ||
| 3 | remind speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | Taffy not said here | you | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | bring in a quote | to-infinitive | Taffy not said here | picture | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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:12.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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.
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