Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp-fish's mouth, a tail, an egg and a snake, sentence 11

Taffy says «inciting» and «incitement» when she means exciting and excitement, «s'prise» for surprise and «thinked» for thought; these are her funny child's words.

Who acts: Taffy, these · What happens: say, mean, think, be · To what, where: inciting, exciting, words · 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, these), 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	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 inciting	punct
4	inciting	incite	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	obj
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 inciting	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 incitement	cc
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 incitement	punct
8	incitement	incitement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 inciting	conj
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 incitement	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 means	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 means	nsubj
12	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	advcl
13	exciting	exciting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 means	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 excitement	cc
15	excitement	excitement	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 exciting	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 s'prise	punct
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	18 s'prise	punct
18	s'prise	s'prise	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 exciting	conj
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 s'prise	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 surprise	case
21	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 s'prise	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 thinked	cc
23	«	«	PUNCT	_	24 thinked	punct
24	thinked	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 s'prise	conj
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	24 thinked	punct
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 thought	case
27	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 thinked	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 words	punct
29	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	35 words	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 words	cop
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 child	nmod:poss
32	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 child	amod
33	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 words	nmod:poss
34	's	's	PART	_	33 child	case
35	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 says	parataxis
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Taffy	inciting and incitement		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent incite=Topic
2	mean	present	Taffy	exciting and excitement and s'prise		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent exciting=Topic
3	think speech: other in a quote	participle	Taffy not said here		for thought	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	these	Taffy's funny child's words		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:087-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth.lesson:11.

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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×4, 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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