Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work, sentence 2
The Magician makes a Magic with all five fingers of his right hand, and Pau Amma shrinks into a little green crab beside the canoe, crying «Give me the scissors!»
Who acts: Magician, Pau · What happens: make, shrink, cry, give · To what, where: Magic, scissors, Pau · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work» 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 | 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 fingers | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 fingers | det |
| 8 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 fingers | nummod |
| 9 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 makes | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 hand | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hand | nmod:poss |
| 12 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hand | amod |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fingers | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shrinks | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 shrinks | cc |
| 16 | Pau | Pau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 shrinks | nsubj |
| 17 | Amma | Amma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Pau | flat |
| 18 | shrinks | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 makes | conj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 crab | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 crab | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 crab | amod |
| 22 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 crab | amod |
| 23 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shrinks | obl |
| 24 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 26 canoe | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 canoe | det |
| 26 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 crab | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 crying | punct |
| 28 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 shrinks | advcl |
| 29 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 28 crying | punct |
| 30 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 crying | ccomp |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 Give | iobj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 scissors | det |
| 33 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 Give | obj |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
| 35 | » | » | 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 all five fingers of Pau's right hand | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset magic=Product | |||
| 2 | shrink | present | Pau | into a little green crab beside the canoe result | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent into crab=Result | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | Pau not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | give in a quote | infinitive | the scissors | Pau | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient scissors=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:092-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea.lesson:2.
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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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