--- title: Taffy: «If I'd only thought of that instead of drawing silly beaver… — Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part… · tree and pragmatics description: Taffy: «If I'd only thought of that instead of drawing silly beaver pictures for the Stranger!» Her broken-spear sign (14.) becomes «la» (15.). Who acts: Mummy, spear sign, Taffy. 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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 (Mummy, spear sign, Taffy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:089-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete.lesson:13 # text = Taffy: «If I'd only thought of that instead of drawing silly beaver pictures for the Stranger!» Her broken-spear sign (14.) becomes «la» (15.). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 089-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 4 If if SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 6 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 only only ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 thought thought VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 obl _ _ 11 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 13 mark _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 11 fixed _ _ 13 drawing draw VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:acl 14 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 beaver beaver NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod 20 ! ! PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 22 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 23 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 spear spear NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 27 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 28 14 14 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 appos _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ 30 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 31 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 32 « « PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 33 la la X GW _ 31 xcomp _ _ 34 » » PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 35 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 36 punct _ _ 36 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 flat _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ _ 38 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 33 punct _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **thought** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | would | Mummy | | | | | of that | tree rules | | 2 | **draw** *in a quote* | gerund | Mummy *not said here* | silly beaver pictures | | | | for the Stranger | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent picture=Result for stranger=Beneficiary | | 3 | **break** | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **become** | present | Taffy's spear sign | | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **sign** | | Taffy | | | | | | nom sign «communication transitive»: poss=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:089-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete.lesson:13`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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