--- title: She draws only the beavers' heads, because she says she can't draw b… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Writte… · tree and pragmatics description: She draws only the beavers' heads, because she says she can't draw beavers, and she draws Mummy with her hands up because Mummy will be so pleased to see the Stranger-man. Who acts: Chief, Mummy. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chief, Mummy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:084-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear.lesson:24 # text = She draws only the beavers' heads, because she says she can't draw beavers, and she draws Mummy with her hands up because Mummy will be so pleased to see the Stranger-man. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 084-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear.lesson # annotation = 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 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 draws draw VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 only only ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det 5 beavers beaver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 ' 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 because because SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 draw draw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 16 beavers beaver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 draws draw VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 21 Mummy Mummy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 25 up up ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 because because SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 27 Mummy Mummy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 28 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 cop _ _ 30 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 pleased pleased ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 advcl _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 35 Stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ _ 37 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **draw** | present | Chief | the beavers's heads | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Chief | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **draw** | can | Chief | beavers | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beaver=Theme | | 4 | **draw** | present | Chief | Mummy | | | | with Chief's hands | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mummy=Theme | | 5 | **is** | future | Mummy | | | | | pleased *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **see** | to-infinitive | Mummy *not said here* | the Stranger man | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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