--- title: A week after the picture-letter muddle, Taffy slips off to go carp-f… — Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part… · tree and pragmatics description: A week after the picture-letter muddle, Taffy slips off to go carp-fishing with her Daddy again instead of helping Mummy hang hides. Who acts: Taffy, Mummy. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp-fish's mouth, a tail, an egg and a snake» of the books cou --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/87-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth/0/) [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 Alphabet Was…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/87-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth/) / 0 # Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp-fish's mouth, a tail, an egg and a snake, sentence 0 A week after the picture-letter muddle, Taffy slips off to go carp-fishing with her Daddy again instead of helping Mummy hang hides. **Who acts:** Taffy, Mummy · **What happens:** slip off, go, fish, help, hang · **To what, where:** Mummy, hides This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp-fish's mouth, a tail, an egg and a snake» 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, Mummy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:087-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth.lesson:0 # text = A week after the picture-letter muddle, Taffy slips off to go carp-fishing with her Daddy again instead of helping Mummy hang hides. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 087-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth.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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 after after ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det 5 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 7 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 muddle muddle NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 slips slip VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 off off ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:xcomp 15 carp carp NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 17 fishing fish VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 Daddy daddy NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 21 again again ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 22 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 24 mark _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 22 fixed _ _ 24 helping help VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 25 Mummy Mummy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 hang hang VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 hides hide NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **slip off** | present | Taffy | | | | week | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | Taffy *not said here* | | | | again | with Taffy's Daddy | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **fish** | gerund | Taffy *not said here* | | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **help** | gerund | Taffy *not said here* | Mummy | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent mummy=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 5 | **hang** | infinitive | Mummy *not said here* | hides | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hide=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:087-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth.lesson:0`. **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 ×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…, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/27/) - next →: [Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/87-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/87-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth/)