Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 107
‘Why?’ said Taffy, and her eyes shone too with incitement.
Who acts: Taffy, eyes · What happens: say, shine · 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 (Taffy, eyes), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shone | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 shone | cc |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 shone | nsubj |
| 11 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 shone | advmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 incitement | case |
| 14 | incitement | incitement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shone | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Taffy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | shine | past | Taffy's eyes | with incitement | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with incitement=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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