Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell, sentence 10
Soft and ashamed, he begs for his shell back.
Who acts: Magician · What happens: beg
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell» 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 (Magician), 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 | Soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 begs | advcl |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 ashamed | cc |
| 3 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Soft | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 begs | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 begs | nsubj |
| 6 | begs | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 shell | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 shell | nmod:poss |
| 9 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 begs | obl |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 begs | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 begs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | present | Magician | for Magician's shell | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for shell=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.
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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 ×2, R6-punct-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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