Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 141
‘I hate helping to hang heavy, hot, hairy hides on them.
Who acts: I · What happens: hate, help, hang · To what, where: hairy hides
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 (I), 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 | _ | 3 hate | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hate | nsubj |
| 3 | hate | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | helping | help | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 hate | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 hang | mark |
| 6 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 helping | xcomp |
| 7 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hang | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hot | punct |
| 9 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 heavy | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hides | punct |
| 11 | hairy | hairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hides | amod |
| 12 | hides | hide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hate | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hides | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | present | I | hairy hides on hides | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | help not said to happen | gerund | I not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hang not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | heavy property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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