--- title: The little girl-daughter speaks up: at the Very Beginning she saw on… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics description: The little girl-daughter speaks up: at the Very Beginning she saw one beast slip away into the sea before he was taught his play. Who acts: little girl daughter, daughter, his. 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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 (little girl daughter, daughter, his), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:091-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell.lesson:0 # text = The little girl-daughter speaks up: at the Very Beginning she saw one beast slip away into the sea before he was taught his play. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 091-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 5 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 speaks speak VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 Very very ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 Beginning beginning PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nummod 16 beast beast NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 slip slip VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 18 away away ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 into into ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 before before SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 taught teach VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 advcl _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 play play NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **speak up** *speech: other* | present | the little girl daughter | | | | | | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **see** | past | daughter | | | | at the Beginning | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **slip away** | infinitive | daughter *not said here* | | | the sea | | away *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **teach** *speech: other* | past · passive | | he | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient play=Topic | | 5 | **play** | | his *= he* | | | | | | nom play «communication intransitive»: 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. 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