Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 183
We’ll open a little hole at the end of the round egg to show how the O-noise runs out all thin, ooo-oo-oo.
Who acts: We, O noise · What happens: open, show, run out · To what, where: little hole, end, thin oo oo · 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 (We, O noise), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 open | nsubj |
| 2 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 open | aux |
| 3 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hole | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hole | amod |
| 6 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 open | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 end | det |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 open | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 egg | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 egg | det |
| 12 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 egg | amod |
| 13 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 end | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 show | mark |
| 15 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 open | advcl |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 runs | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 noise | det |
| 18 | O | o | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 noise | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 O | punct |
| 20 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 runs | nsubj |
| 21 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 show | ccomp |
| 22 | out | out | ADV | _ | 21 runs | advmod |
| 23 | all | all | ADV | _ | 24 thin | advmod |
| 24 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 oo | amod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 thin | punct |
| 26 | ooo | ooo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 oo | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 ooo | punct |
| 28 | oo | oo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 oo | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 oo | punct |
| 30 | oo | oo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 runs | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | future | We | a little hole | at the end of the round egg | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent hole=Theme at end=Location | |||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | We not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | run out | present | the O noise | thin oo oo | out property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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