Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 170

‘Er-hm!’ said Tegumai, looking up.

Who acts: hm · What happens: say, look up · 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 (hm), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	Er	er	INTJ	_	7 said	discourse
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 hm	punct
4	hm	hm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 hm	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 hm	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 looking	punct
10	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 said	advcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 looking	compound:prt
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	hm						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	look up	gerund	hm not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/10/170/