Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 173
Taffy drew the snake and the drying-pole.
Who acts: Taffy · What happens: draw · To what, where: snake
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 (Taffy), 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 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 drew | nsubj |
| 2 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 snake | det |
| 4 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drew | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pole | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pole | det |
| 7 | drying | drying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pole | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 drying | punct |
| 9 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 snake | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | Taffy | the snake and the drying pole | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Theme |
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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