Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 190
Her Daddy went on drawing, and his hand shook with incitement.
Who acts: Daddy, hand · What happens: go, shake · To what, where: drawing
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 (Daddy, hand), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 Daddy | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Daddy | daddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 drawing | case |
| 5 | drawing | drawing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shook | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shook | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hand | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shook | nsubj |
| 10 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 incitement | case |
| 12 | incitement | incitement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shook | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Taffy's Daddy | drawing | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on drawing=Location | ||||
| 2 | shake | past | frog's hand | with incitement | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with incitement=Co-Patient |
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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