Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 108

‘I’ll show,’ said her Daddy.

Who acts: I · What happens: show, say · To what, where: Daddy · 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 (I), 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	_	4 show	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 show	nsubj
3	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 show	aux
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 show	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 show	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 Daddy	nmod:poss
9	Daddy	daddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	future	I						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past		Taffy's Daddy					tree rules

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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