Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp-fish's mouth, a tail, an egg and a snake, sentence 0

A week after the picture-letter muddle, Taffy slips off to go carp-fishing with her Daddy again instead of helping Mummy hang hides.

Who acts: Taffy, Mummy · What happens: slip off, go, fish, help, hang · To what, where: Mummy, hides

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp-fish's mouth, a tail, an egg and a snake» 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, Mummy), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 week	det
2	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slips	obl:unmarked
3	after	after	ADP	_	5 picture	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 muddle	det
5	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 week	nmod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 muddle	punct
7	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 muddle	compound
8	muddle	muddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 picture	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Taffy	punct
10	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 slips	nsubj
11	slips	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 slips	compound:prt
13	to	to	PART	_	14 go	mark
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 slips	advcl
15	carp	carp	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fishing	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 carp	punct
17	fishing	fish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 go	xcomp
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 Daddy	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 Daddy	nmod:poss
20	Daddy	daddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 go	obl
21	again	again	ADV	_	14 go	advmod
22	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	24 helping	mark
23	of	of	ADP	_	22 instead	fixed
24	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 go	advcl
25	Mummy	Mummy	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 helping	obj
26	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 helping	xcomp
27	hides	hide	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 hang	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 slips	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	slip off	present	Taffy		week		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	go	to-infinitive	Taffy not said here		again	with Taffy's Daddy	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fish	gerund	Taffy not said here				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	help	gerund	Taffy not said here	Mummy			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mummy=Beneficiary clause=Theme
5	hang	infinitive	Mummy not said here	hides			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hide=Patient

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:087-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth.lesson:0.

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 ×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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