Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 1

THE week after Taffimai Metallumai (we will still call her Taffy, Best Beloved) made that little mistake about her Daddy’s spear and the Stranger-man and the picture-letter and all, she went carp-fishing again with her Daddy.

Who acts: we, week, Taffy · What happens: call, make, go · To what, where: Taffy, little mistake, carp fishing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Alphabet Was Made. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, week, Taffy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	THE	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 week	det
2	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 made	nsubj
3	after	after	ADP	_	5 Metallumai	case
4	Taffimai	Taffimai	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Metallumai	compound
5	Metallumai	Metallumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 week	nmod
6	(	(	PUNCT	_	10 call	punct
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 call	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 call	aux
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 call	advmod
10	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 Metallumai	parataxis
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 Taffy	nmod:poss
12	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 call	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Beloved	punct
14	Best	Good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Beloved	flat
15	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Taffy	appos
16	)	)	PUNCT	_	10 call	punct
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 mistake	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 mistake	amod
20	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 made	obj
21	about	about	ADP	_	25 spear	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 Daddy	nmod:poss
23	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 spear	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 Daddy	case
25	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 mistake	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 man	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 man	det
28	Stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 man	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 Stranger	punct
30	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 spear	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 letter	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 letter	det
33	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 letter	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 picture	punct
35	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 spear	conj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 all	cc
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 mistake	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 went	punct
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 went	nsubj
40	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 made	conj
41	carp	carp	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 fishing	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 carp	punct
43	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 went	obj
44	again	again	ADV	_	40 went	advmod
45	with	with	ADP	_	47 Daddy	case
46	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 Daddy	nmod:poss
47	Daddy	daddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 went	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	call	future	we		Metallumai's Taffy	still		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent taffy=Recipient
2	make	past	the week after Taffimai Metallumai	that little mistake			about Beloved's Daddy's spear and the Stranger man and the picture letter	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product
3	go	past	Taffy	carp fishing		again	with Taffy's Daddy	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fishing=Theme

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.

Text: «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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