Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 114
‘S’pose you saw this scratched by the side of a pool in the beaver-swamp?’
Who acts: S’pose, this · What happens: see, scratch · To what, where: this
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 (S’pose, this), 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 saw | punct |
| 2 | S’pose | s'pose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 saw | xcomp |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 side | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 side | det |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scratched | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 pool | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pool | det |
| 12 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 side | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 swamp | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 swamp | det |
| 15 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 swamp | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 beaver | punct |
| 17 | swamp | swamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pool | nmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | S’pose | this | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | scratch | participle | this not said here | by the side of a pool in the beaver swamp | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent by side=Location |
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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