Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down, sentence 2

Then Taffy owns up, not feeling very comfy, that she gave him the picture, and her Daddy puts his arm round her.

Who acts: Taffy, Daddy · What happens: own up, not feel, give, put · To what, where: picture, Tegumai, arm

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down» 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), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 owns	advmod
2	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 owns	nsubj
3	owns	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 owns	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 feeling	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 feeling	advmod
7	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 owns	advcl
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 comfy	advmod
9	comfy	comfy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 feeling	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gave	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 gave	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gave	nsubj
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 feeling	parataxis
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gave	iobj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 picture	det
16	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 puts	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 puts	cc
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 Daddy	nmod:poss
20	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 puts	nsubj
21	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 owns	conj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 arm	nmod:poss
23	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 puts	obj
24	round	round	ADP	_	25 her	case
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 puts	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 owns	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	own up	present	Taffy			then		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	not feel	gerund	Taffy not said here				comfy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	give	past	Taffy	the picture	Tegumai			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient picture=Theme
4	put	present	Taffy's Daddy	Tegumai's arm			round Taffy	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent arm=Goal

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:086-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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