Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 17

‘You look just like a carp-fish with its mouth open.

Who acts: You · What happens: look

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 (You), 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 look	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 look	nsubj
3	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	just	just	ADV	_	9 fish	advmod
5	like	like	ADP	_	9 fish	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fish	det
7	carp	carp	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fish	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 carp	punct
9	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 look	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 mouth	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mouth	nmod:poss
12	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fish	nmod
13	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 look	xcomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	You					like a carp fish with fish's mouth; open property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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