Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 123

‘And still it would be just the same as if you stood there and said, “G’way, Taffy, or you’ll get fever.”

Who acts: noise, you · What happens: be, stand, say, get · To what, where: G’way · 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 (noise, you), 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	_	9 same	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 same	cc
3	still	still	ADV	_	9 same	advmod
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 same	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 same	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 same	cop
7	just	just	ADV	_	9 same	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 same	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 stood	mark
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 stood	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 stood	nsubj
13	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 same	advcl
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 stood	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stood	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 G’way	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 G’way	punct
19	G’way	G'way	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 get	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Taffy	punct
21	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 G’way	flat
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 get	punct
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 get	cc
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 get	nsubj
25	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 get	aux
26	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
27	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 get	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 same	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 same	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	noise			still	same property	tree rules
2	stand	past	you		there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	you not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	get in a quote	future	you	G’way				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fever=Stimulus

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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