Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 169
We’re getting on beautifully.’
Who acts: We · What happens: 're, get on
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 ’re | nsubj |
| 2 | ’re | 're | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 ’re | xcomp |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 getting | compound:prt |
| 5 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 3 getting | advmod |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ’re | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 ’re | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 're | past | We | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get on | gerund | We not said here | beautifully property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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