Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 156

It’s very like our drying-poles, anyhow,’ said her Daddy, laughing.

Who acts: hurry, drying poles · What happens: be, say, laugh · To what, where: Daddy · 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 (hurry, drying poles), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 poles	nsubj
2	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 poles	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	8 poles	advmod
4	like	like	ADP	_	8 poles	case
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 poles	nmod:poss
6	drying	drying	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 poles	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 drying	punct
8	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 anyhow	punct
10	anyhow	anyhow	INTJ	_	8 poles	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 anyhow	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 anyhow	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 Daddy	nmod:poss
15	Daddy	daddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 laughing	punct
17	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 said	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	hurry		like our drying poles	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	our drying poles	Mummy's Daddy		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent daddy=Topic
3	laugh	gerund	our drying poles not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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