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title: Taffy finishes her picture, proud of it, and asks if the Stranger-ma… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Writte… · tree and pragmatics
description: Taffy finishes her picture, proud of it, and asks if the Stranger-man understands. Who acts: Taffy, Stranger man. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe comes» of the books course of Mova's primary school with i
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# Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe comes, sentence 0

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Taffy finishes her picture, proud of it, and asks if the Stranger-man understands.

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**Who acts:** Taffy, Stranger man · **What happens:** finish, ask, understand · **To what, where:** picture

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe comes» 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 (Taffy, Stranger man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:085-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes.lesson:0
# text = Taffy finishes her picture, proud of it, and asks if the Stranger-man understands.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 085-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	finishes	finish	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	Stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	understands	understand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | present | Taffy | Taffy's picture |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector picture=Eventuality |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Taffy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **understand** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the Stranger man |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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.

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**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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