Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell, sentence 12
The girl describes Pau Amma: «He was round and he was flat; and his eyes grew upon stalks; and he walked sideways like this; and he was covered with strong armour upon his back.»
Who acts: girl, Amma, eyes · What happens: describe, be, grow, walk, cover · To what, where: Pau Amma, stalks, Amma
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 (girl, Amma, eyes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 describes | nsubj |
| 3 | describes | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Pau | Pau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Amma | compound |
| 5 | Amma | Amma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 describes | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 describes | punct |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 flat | punct |
| 8 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 flat | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 flat | cop |
| 10 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 flat | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 flat | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 flat | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 flat | cop |
| 14 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 describes | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 grew | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 grew | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 grew | nsubj |
| 19 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 describes | conj |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 stalks | case |
| 21 | stalks | stalk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 grew | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 walked | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 walked | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 walked | nsubj |
| 25 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 describes | conj |
| 26 | sideways | sideway | ADV | _ | 25 walked | advmod |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 this | case |
| 28 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 walked | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 covered | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 covered | cc |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 covered | aux:pass |
| 33 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 describes | conj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 armour | case |
| 35 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 armour | amod |
| 36 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 covered | obl |
| 37 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 39 back | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 back | nmod:poss |
| 39 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 armour | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 describes | punct |
| 41 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 describes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | present | the girl | Pau Amma | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent amma=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | Amma | flat property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grow in a quote | past | Amma's eyes | stalks | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon stalk=Location | ||||
| 4 | walk in a quote | past | Amma | like this; sideway property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | cover in a quote | past · passive | Amma | with strong armour upon Amma's back | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with armour=Theme |
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:091-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell.lesson:12.
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): no change. 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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