--- title: She giggles about the Head Chief's puffed cheeks and the mud in the… — Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part… · tree and pragmatics description: She giggles about the Head Chief's puffed cheeks and the mud in the Stranger-man's hair; Daddy says he had to pay the Stranger-man two soft deerskins to say sorry. Who acts: Taffy, Daddy. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp-fish's mouth, a tail, an eg --- [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/1/) [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/) / 1 # Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp-fish's mouth, a tail, an egg and a snake, sentence 1 She giggles about the Head Chief's puffed cheeks and the mud in the Stranger-man's hair; Daddy says he had to pay the Stranger-man two soft deerskins to say sorry. **Who acts:** Taffy, Daddy · **What happens:** giggle, puff, say, have, pay · **To what, where:** two soft deerskins, Stranger man · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, Daddy), 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:1 # text = She giggles about the Head Chief's puffed cheeks and the mud in the Stranger-man's hair; Daddy says he had to pay the Stranger-man two soft deerskins to say sorry. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 giggles giggle VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 about about ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 Head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 Chief Chief PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 puffed puff VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 9 cheeks cheek NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 Stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 17 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 Daddy Daddy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 Stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ _ 30 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:obj 31 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 32 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 deerskins deerskin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ _ 36 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:obj 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **giggle** | present | Taffy | | | | | about the Head Chief's puffed cheeks and the mud in the Stranger man's hair | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **puff** | participle | | | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Daddy | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **have** | past | Daddy | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **pay** | to-infinitive | Daddy *not said here* | two soft deerskins | the Stranger man | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent man=Recipient deerskin=Asset | | 6 | **say** *speech: apologize* | to-infinitive | Daddy *not said here* | | | | | sorry *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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:1`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×3, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/87-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth/0/) - next →: [Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/87-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/87-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth/)