Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 132
Snake and egg,’ said Taffy ‘So that means dinner’s ready.
Who acts: Snake, that · What happens: say, mean · To what, where: Taffy · 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 (Snake, that), 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 | Snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 egg | cc |
| 3 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Snake | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Snake | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Snake | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 Taffy | punct |
| 9 | So | so | ADV | _ | 11 means | advmod |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 means | nsubj |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ’s | nsubj |
| 13 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 means | ccomp |
| 14 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ’s | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Snake and egg | Taffy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | that | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
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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