Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down, sentence 7
Taffy only wanted the spear, and in the end it is the one spear nobody brought.
Who acts: Taffy, picture, nobody · What happens: want, be, bring · To what, where: spear, one spear, end
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, picture, nobody), 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 | 3 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 wanted | advmod |
| 3 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 spear | det |
| 5 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wanted | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 spear | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 spear | cc |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 end | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 end | det |
| 10 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spear | obl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 spear | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 spear | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 spear | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spear | compound |
| 15 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wanted | conj |
| 16 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 brought | nsubj |
| 17 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 spear | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | Taffy | the spear | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot spear=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | picture | the one spear | in the end | tree rules | |||
| 3 | bring | past | nobody | the one spear not said here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent spear=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:086-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention.lesson:7.
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): no change. 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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