Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 177
‘Why, it’s just like the round-egg-sound made thin.’
Who acts: sound · What happens: be, make · To what, where: round egg sound
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 (sound), 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 | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sound | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sound | nsubj |
| 5 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 sound | cop |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 sound | advmod |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 sound | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sound | det |
| 9 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sound | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 round | punct |
| 11 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sound | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 egg | punct |
| 13 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Why | nsubj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 sound | acl |
| 15 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 made | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | sound | like the round egg sound | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | the round egg sound not said here | thin property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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