Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the Alphabet, all complete», and how letters really began, sentence 13
Taffy: «If I'd only thought of that instead of drawing silly beaver pictures for the Stranger!» Her broken-spear sign (14.) becomes «la» (15.).
Who acts: Mummy, spear sign, Taffy · What happens: thought, draw, break, become, sign · To what, where: silly beaver pictures
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the Alphabet, all complete», and how letters really began» 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 (Mummy, spear sign, 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 | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 becomes | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 31 becomes | punct |
| 4 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 thought | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 thought | nsubj |
| 6 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 thought | aux |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 thought | advmod |
| 8 | thought | thought | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 becomes | advcl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 that | case |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 thought | obl |
| 11 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 13 drawing | mark |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 instead | fixed |
| 13 | drawing | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 thought | advcl |
| 14 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 pictures | amod |
| 15 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pictures | compound |
| 16 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 drawing | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 Stranger | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Stranger | det |
| 19 | Stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drawing | obl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 26 sign | punct |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 26 sign | punct |
| 22 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 sign | nmod:poss |
| 23 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 spear | amod |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 broken | punct |
| 25 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sign | compound |
| 26 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 becomes | nsubj |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 14 | punct |
| 28 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 sign | appos |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 14 | punct |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 sign | punct |
| 31 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Taffy | conj |
| 32 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 33 la | punct |
| 33 | la | la | X | _ | 31 becomes | xcomp |
| 34 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 33 la | punct |
| 35 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 36 15 | punct |
| 36 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 la | flat |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 la | punct |
| 38 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 33 la | punct |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Taffy | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thought a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | would | Mummy | of that | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | draw in a quote | gerund | Mummy not said here | silly beaver pictures | for the Stranger | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent picture=Result for stranger=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | become | present | Taffy's spear sign | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | sign | Taffy | nom sign «communication transitive»: poss=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:089-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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