Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell, sentence 8
But when the Magician asks for a Magic, Pau Amma can only stir up the sea.
Who acts: Magician, Pau · What happens: ask, stir up · To what, where: sea
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 stir | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 asks | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Magician | det |
| 4 | Magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asks | nsubj |
| 5 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 stir | advcl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 Magic | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Magic | det |
| 8 | Magic | Magic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 asks | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Pau | punct |
| 10 | Pau | Pau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 stir | nsubj |
| 11 | Amma | Amma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Pau | flat |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 stir | aux |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 stir | advmod |
| 14 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 stir | compound:prt |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sea | det |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stir | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 stir | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | the Magician | for a Magic | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stir up | can | Pau | the sea | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition sea=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:8.
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, R7-rel-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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