Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 157
‘Now I’ll make a new noise with a snake and drying-pole sound in it.
Who acts: I · What happens: make · To what, where: new noise
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 | _ | 5 make | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 make | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 make | nsubj |
| 4 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | aux |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 noise | det |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 noise | amod |
| 8 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 snake | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 snake | det |
| 11 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sound | cc |
| 13 | drying | drying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pole | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 drying | punct |
| 15 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sound | compound |
| 16 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 snake | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sound | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | future | I | a new noise | now | with a snake and pole sound in sound | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Product |
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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