--- title: The Magician will not simply give the shell back, because Pau Amma m… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics description: The Magician will not simply give the shell back, because Pau Amma might grow big and proud again and forget his promise. Who acts: Magician, Pau. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell» of the books course of Mova's primary sch --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/25/) [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, The Crab that Played…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/) / 25 # Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell, sentence 25 The Magician will not simply give the shell back, because Pau Amma might grow big and proud again and forget his promise. **Who acts:** Magician, Pau · **What happens:** not give back, grow, forget, promise · **To what, where:** shell, promise This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell» 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 (Magician, Pau), 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:25 # text = The Magician will not simply give the shell back, because Pau Amma might grow big and proud again and forget his promise. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Magician magician PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 5 simply simply ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 back back ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 Pau Pau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 Amma Amma PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 flat _ _ 14 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 16 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 proud proud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 19 again again ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 forget forget VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **give back** | future | the Magician | the shell | | | | simply *property* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Theme | | 2 | **grow** | might | Pau | | | | | big *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **forget** | infinitive | Pau *not said here* | Pau's promise | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **promise** | | Pau | | | | | | nom promise «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. 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