Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe comes, sentence 2

He races off for help without even asking the way, and Taffy sits down very pleased and tells her Daddy only that it is a surprise.

Who acts: Chief, help, Taffy, Daddy · What happens: race off, ask, sit down, tell, be · To what, where: way, Daddy, surprise · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Chief, help, Taffy, Daddy), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 races	nsubj
2	races	race	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 races	compound:prt
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 help	case
5	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 races	obl
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	8 asking	mark
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 asking	advmod
8	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 help	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asking	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sits	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sits	cc
13	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 sits	nsubj
14	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 races	conj
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 sits	compound:prt
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 pleased	advmod
17	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sits	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tells	cc
19	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 sits	conj
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 Daddy	nmod:poss
21	Daddy	daddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tells	obj
22	only	only	ADV	_	27 surprise	advmod
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 surprise	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 surprise	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 surprise	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 surprise	det
27	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tells	ccomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 races	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	race off	present	Chief		for help	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	help not said here	the way		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Recipient
3	sit down	present	Taffy		pleased property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	present	Taffy not said here	Taffy's Daddy		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent daddy=Recipient
5	is a	present	Daddy	a surprise		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:085-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes.lesson:2.

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, 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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