--- title: He races off for help without even asking the way, and Taffy sits do… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Writte… · tree and pragmatics description: He races off for help without even asking the way, and Taffy sits down very pleased and tells her Daddy only that it is a surprise. Who acts: Chief, help, Taffy, Daddy. 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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, help, Taffy, Daddy), 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:2 # text = He races off for help without even asking the way, and Taffy sits down very pleased and tells her Daddy only that it is a surprise. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 races race VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 off off ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 without without SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 even even ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obl:unmarked 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 down down ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 very very ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 pleased pleased ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 Daddy daddy NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 only only ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 surprise surprise NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 ccomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **race off** | present | Chief | | | | | for help | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | help *not said here* | the way | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Recipient | | 3 | **sit down** | present | Taffy | | | | | pleased *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Taffy *not said here* | Taffy's Daddy | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent daddy=Recipient | | 5 | **is a** | present | Daddy | a surprise | | | | | tree rules | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:085-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes.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 ×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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