Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 125

O Daddy, we must tell Mummy, quick!’ and Taffy danced all round him.

Who acts: we, Taffy · What happens: tell, dance · To what, where: Mummy · 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 (we, Taffy), 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	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	2 Daddy	case
2	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Daddy	punct
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tell	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	Mummy	Mummy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tell	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 quick	punct
9	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tell	advmod
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 danced	cc
13	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 danced	nsubj
14	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	conj
15	all	all	ADV	_	17 him	advmod
16	round	round	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 danced	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	must	we		Mummy			of Daddy	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mummy=Recipient
2	dance	past	Taffy					round G’way = g'way	vn waltz-51.5 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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