Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 151

I’ll put them in just after the hissy-snake.

Who acts: I · What happens: put · To what, where: pictures

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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 put	nsubj
2	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 put	aux
3	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	11 snake	case
6	just	just	ADV	_	11 snake	advmod
7	after	after	ADP	_	11 snake	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 snake	det
9	hissy	hissy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 snake	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 hissy	punct
11	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	future	I	pictures = picture				in the hissy snake	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in snake=Destination

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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