Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell, sentence 25

The Magician will not simply give the shell back, because Pau Amma might grow big and proud again and forget his promise.

Who acts: Magician, Pau · What happens: not give back, grow, forget, promise · To what, where: shell, promise

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, Pau), 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 Magician	det
2	Magician	magician	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 give	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 give	advmod
5	simply	simply	ADV	_	6 give	advmod
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shell	det
8	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obj
9	back	back	ADV	_	6 give	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 grow	mark
12	Pau	Pau	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 grow	nsubj
13	Amma	Amma	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Pau	flat
14	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 grow	aux
15	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 give	advcl
16	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 grow	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 proud	cc
18	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 big	conj
19	again	again	ADV	_	16 big	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 forget	cc
21	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 grow	conj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 promise	nmod:poss
23	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 forget	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not give back	future	the Magician	the shell	simply property	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Theme
2	grow	might	Pau		big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	forget	infinitive	Pau not said here	Pau's promise		tree rules
4	promise		Pau			nom promise «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:091-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell.lesson:25.

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): 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.

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