Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell, sentence 9
The Magician makes a Magic with just the little finger of his left hand, and Pau Amma's shell falls off like a husk off a coconut.
Who acts: Magician, shell · What happens: make, fall off · To what, where: Magic
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, shell), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Magic | det |
| 5 | Magic | Magic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 finger | case |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 finger | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 finger | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 finger | amod |
| 10 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 hand | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hand | nmod:poss |
| 13 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hand | amod |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 finger | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 falls | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 falls | cc |
| 17 | Pau | Pau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 shell | nmod:poss |
| 18 | Amma | Amma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Pau | flat |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Pau | case |
| 20 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 falls | nsubj |
| 21 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 makes | conj |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 falls | compound:prt |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 husk | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 husk | det |
| 25 | husk | husk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 falls | obl |
| 26 | off | off | ADP | _ | 28 coconut | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 coconut | det |
| 28 | coconut | coconut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 husk | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | the Magician | a Magic | with the little finger of Magician's left hand | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset magic=Product | |||
| 2 | fall off | present | Pau's shell | like a husk off a coconut | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:9.
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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