Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell, sentence 23
The girl picks out the soft eyes of the twin nut «with her little golden scissors».
Who acts: girl · What happens: pick out · To what, where: soft eyes
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), 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 picks | nsubj |
| 3 | picks | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 picks | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 eyes | det |
| 6 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 eyes | amod |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 picks | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 nut | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 nut | det |
| 10 | twin | twin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nut | compound |
| 11 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 eyes | nmod |
| 12 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 17 scissors | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 scissors | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 scissors | nmod:poss |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 scissors | amod |
| 16 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 scissors | amod |
| 17 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 picks | obl |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 17 scissors | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 picks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick out | present | the girl | the soft eyes of the twin nut | with girl's little golden scissors | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
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:23.
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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