Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 188
Much better than a thin frog.
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: 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 | Much | much | ADV | _ | 2 better | advmod |
| 2 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 3 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 frog | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 frog | det |
| 5 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 frog | amod |
| 6 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 better | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 better | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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