Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 10

‘We won’t talk about that,’ said her Daddy, ‘Let’s have lunch.’

Who acts: We, ’s · What happens: not talk, say, let, have · To what, where: Daddy, ’s, lunch · 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, ’s), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 talk	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 talk	nsubj
3	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 talk	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 talk	advmod
5	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 that	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 talk	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 talk	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 talk	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 Daddy	nmod:poss
12	Daddy	daddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Let	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 Let	punct
15	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
16	’s	we	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 Let	obj
17	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 Let	xcomp
18	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 have	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 Let	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not talk	future	We		about that	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about that=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past		Mummy's Daddy		tree rules
3	let	infinitive		’s		tree rules
4	have	infinitive	’s not said here	lunch		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Patient

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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