Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe comes, sentence 6

Teshumai reads the picture as a horror: Tegumai full of spears, Taffy's hair standing on end in fright, and a pack of people creeping up behind, which are really Taffy's beavers.

Who acts: Teshumai, hair, people · What happens: read, stand, creep up, be · To what, where: picture, end, beavers

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 (Teshumai, hair, people), 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	Teshumai	Teshumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reads	nsubj
2	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 picture	det
4	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reads	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 horror	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 horror	det
7	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reads	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 Tegumai	punct
9	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reads	obl
10	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Tegumai	amod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 spears	case
12	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 full	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hair	punct
14	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 hair	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 Taffy	case
16	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Tegumai	appos
17	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 hair	acl
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 end	case
19	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 standing	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 fright	case
21	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 standing	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 pack	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 pack	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 pack	det
25	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Tegumai	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 people	case
27	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 pack	nmod
28	creeping	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 people	acl
29	up	up	ADV	_	28 creeping	advmod
30	behind	behind	ADV	_	28 creeping	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 beavers	punct
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 beavers	nsubj
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 beavers	cop
34	really	really	ADV	_	37 beavers	advmod
35	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 beavers	nmod:poss
36	's	's	PART	_	35 Taffy	case
37	beavers	beaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 people	acl:relcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reads	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	read	present	Teshumai	the picture		as a horror; Tegumai and a pack of people obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer picture=Stimulus as horror=Attribute
2	stand	gerund	Taffy's hair not said here		on end	in fright	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on end=Location
3	creep up	gerund	people not said here			behind property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	present	people	Taffy's beavers			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:6.

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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