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

She giggles about the Head Chief's puffed cheeks and the mud in the Stranger-man's hair; Daddy says he had to pay the Stranger-man two soft deerskins to say sorry.

Who acts: Taffy, Daddy · What happens: giggle, puff, say, have, pay · To what, where: two soft deerskins, Stranger man · Speech: someone speaks here

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, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 giggles	nsubj
2	giggles	giggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	9 cheeks	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Chief	det
5	Head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Chief	compound
6	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cheeks	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Chief	case
8	puffed	puff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 cheeks	amod
9	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 giggles	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 mud	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mud	det
12	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cheeks	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	19 hair	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
15	Stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 man	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 Stranger	punct
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hair	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 man	case
19	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mud	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 says	punct
21	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 says	nsubj
22	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 giggles	parataxis
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 had	nsubj
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 says	ccomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 pay	mark
26	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 had	xcomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 man	det
28	Stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 man	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 Stranger	punct
30	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pay	iobj
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 deerskins	nummod
32	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 deerskins	amod
33	deerskins	deerskin	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 pay	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 say	mark
35	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 pay	advcl
36	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 say	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 giggles	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	giggle	present	Taffy			about the Head Chief's puffed cheeks and the mud in the Stranger man's hair	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	puff	participle					vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
3	say speech: assert	present	Daddy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have	past	Daddy				tree rules
5	pay	to-infinitive	Daddy not said here	two soft deerskins	the Stranger man		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent man=Recipient deerskin=Asset
6	say speech: apologize	to-infinitive	Daddy not said here			sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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:1.

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 ×3, R8-pos-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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