Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 176
‘Shu-shu-u-u-u!’ said her Daddy.
Who acts: u, Shu shu · What happens: u, say · To what, where: Shu shu, Daddy · 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 (u, Shu shu), 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 | _ | 4 shu | punct |
| 2 | Shu | shu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shu | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Shu | punct |
| 4 | shu | shu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 u | punct |
| 6 | u | u | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 u | nsubj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 u | punct |
| 8 | u | u | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 u | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 u | punct |
| 10 | u | u | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shu | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 u | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 u | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 Daddy | nmod:poss |
| 15 | Daddy | daddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | u | u | Shu shu not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Shu shu | u's Daddy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent daddy=Topic |
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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