Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp-fish's mouth, a tail, an egg and a snake, sentence 13
Taffy plans to draw the carp-mouth in the smoke at the back of the Cave, as a surprise for Daddy.
Who acts: Taffy · What happens: plan, draw · To what, where: carp mouth, smoke
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), 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 plans | nsubj |
| 2 | plans | plan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 draw | mark |
| 4 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 plans | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mouth | det |
| 6 | carp | carp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mouth | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 carp | punct |
| 8 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 draw | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 smoke | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 smoke | det |
| 11 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mouth | nmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 back | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 back | det |
| 14 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 smoke | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Cave | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Cave | det |
| 17 | Cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 back | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 surprise | punct |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 surprise | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 surprise | det |
| 21 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 draw | obl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 Daddy | case |
| 23 | Daddy | Daddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 surprise | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 plans | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plan | present | Taffy | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | draw not said to happen | to-infinitive | Taffy not said here | the carp mouth | the smoke at the back of the Cave | as a surprise for Daddy | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme in smoke=Destination |
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:13.
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): 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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