Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp-fish's mouth, a tail, an egg and a snake, sentence 4

He says «Ah!», and she thinks he looks like a carp-fish with its mouth open, so she scratches a carp's open mouth on bark: that picture will mean the sound ah.

Who acts: Daddy, Taffy, picture · What happens: say, think, look, scratch, mean · To what, where: open mouth, bark, sound · 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 (Daddy, Taffy, picture), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 Ah	punct
4	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	2 says	ccomp
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 Ah	punct
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 Ah	punct
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thinks	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 thinks	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thinks	nsubj
10	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	conj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 looks	nsubj
12	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 thinks	ccomp
13	like	like	ADP	_	17 fish	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 fish	det
15	carp	carp	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fish	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 carp	punct
17	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 looks	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 mouth	case
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mouth	nmod:poss
20	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fish	nmod
21	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 looks	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 scratches	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	25 scratches	advmod
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 scratches	nsubj
25	scratches	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 looks	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 carp	det
27	carp	carp	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 mouth	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 carp	case
29	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 mouth	amod
30	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 scratches	obj
31	on	on	ADP	_	32 bark	case
32	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 scratches	obl
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	37 mean	punct
34	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 picture	det
35	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 mean	nsubj
36	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 mean	aux
37	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 scratches	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 sound	det
39	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 mean	obj
40	ah	ah	INTJ	_	39 sound	discourse
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Daddy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	present	Taffy				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	look	present	Daddy			like a carp fish with fish's mouth; open property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	scratch	present	Taffy	a carp's open mouth	bark		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme on bark=Destination
5	mean	future	that picture	the sound			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Topic

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:4.

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. 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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