--- title: Long before ancient Britons traded there, he says, Taffy and her Dad… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Writte… · tree and pragmatics description: Long before ancient Britons traded there, he says, Taffy and her Daddy had their home on that down. Who acts: ancient Britons, Kipling, Taffy. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down» of the books course of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Just So Stories, How the First Letter…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/) / 10 # Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down, sentence 10 Long before ancient Britons traded there, he says, Taffy and her Daddy had their home on that down. **Who acts:** ancient Britons, Kipling, Taffy · **What happens:** trade, say, have · **To what, where:** home, down · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down» 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 (ancient Britons, Kipling, Taffy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:086-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention.lesson:10 # text = Long before ancient Britons traded there, he says, Taffy and her Daddy had their home on that down. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 086-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ 2 before before SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 3 ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 Britons briton PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 5 traded trade VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 11 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 Daddy daddy NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 15 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 20 det _ _ 20 down down NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | **trade** | past | ancient Britons | | | there | | | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Kipling | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **have** | past | Taffy and Taffy's Daddy | Britons's home | | that down | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient | 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:086-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention.lesson:10`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories, How the First Letter…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/9/) - next →: [Just So Stories, How the First Letter…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/)