Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 124

All that in a carp-fish-tail and a round egg!

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: 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 that	det:predet
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	9 tail	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tail	det
5	carp	carp	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tail	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 carp	punct
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tail	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 fish	punct
9	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 that	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 egg	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 egg	det
12	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 egg	amod
13	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tail	conj
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 tail	punct

Pragmatics

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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