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Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 2

Her Mummy wanted her to stay at home and help hang up hides to dry on the big drying-poles outside their Neolithic Cave, but Taffy slipped away down to her Daddy quite early, and they fished.

Who acts: Mummy, Taffy, poles · What happens: want, stay, help, hang up, hide, dry · To what, where: Taffy, home, big drying poles

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 (Mummy, Taffy, poles), 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

nmod:possnsubjobjmarkxcompcaseoblccconjnsubjcompound:prtacl:relclmarkadvclcasedetamodcompoundpunctoblcasenmod:possamodnmodpunctccnsubjparataxisadvmodadvmodcasenmod:possobladvmodadvmodpunctccnsubjconjpunctrootHerPRONMummyPROPNwantedVERBherPRONtoPARTstayVERBatADPhomeNOUNandCCONJhelpVERBhangVERBupADPhidesVERBtoPARTdryVERBonADPtheDETbigADJdryingNOUN-PUNCTpolesNOUNoutsideADPtheirPRONNeolithicADJCaveNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJTaffyPROPNslippedVERBawayADVdownADVtoADPherPRONDaddyNOUNquiteADVearlyADV,PUNCTandCCONJtheyPRONfishedVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HerherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs2 Mummynmod:poss
2MummyMummyPROPNNumber=Sing3 wantednsubj
3wantedwantVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 wantedobj
5totoPART_6 staymark
6staystayVERBVerbForm=Inf3 wantedxcomp
7atatADP_8 homecase
8homehomeNOUNNumber=Sing6 stayobl
9andandCCONJ_10 helpcc
10helphelpVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 stayconj
11hanghangVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin13 hidesnsubj
12upupADP_11 hangcompound:prt
13hideshideVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin10 helpacl:relcl
14totoPART_15 drymark
15drydryVERBVerbForm=Inf13 hidesadvcl
16ononADP_21 polescase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 polesdet
18bigbigADJDegree=Pos21 polesamod
19dryingdryingNOUNNumber=Sing21 polescompound
20--PUNCT_19 dryingpunct
21polespoleNOUNNumber=Plur15 dryobl
22outsideoutsideADP_25 Cavecase
23theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 Cavenmod:poss
24NeolithicneolithicADJDegree=Pos25 Caveamod
25CavecaveNOUNNumber=Sing21 polesnmod
26,,PUNCT_29 slippedpunct
27butbutCCONJ_29 slippedcc
28TaffyTaffyPROPNNumber=Sing29 slippednsubj
29slippedslipVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 wantedparataxis
30awayawayADV_29 slippedadvmod
31downdownADV_29 slippedadvmod
32totoADP_34 Daddycase
33herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs34 Daddynmod:poss
34DaddydaddyNOUNNumber=Sing29 slippedobl
35quitequiteADV_36 earlyadvmod
36earlyearlyADVDegree=Pos29 slippedadvmod
37,,PUNCT_40 fishedpunct
38andandCCONJ_40 fishedcc
39theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs40 fishednsubj
40fishedfishVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 wantedconj
41..PUNCT_3 wantedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1wantpastTaffy's MummyTaffytree rules
2stay not said to happento-infinitiveTaffy not said herehomevn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location
3helppresentTaffy not said herevn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4hang upinfinitivevn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5hidepresentvn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6dryto-infinitivethe big drying poles outside poles's Neolithic Cavevn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7slip awaypastTaffyto Taffy's Daddy; away, down, early propertyvn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
8fishpastpoles = polevn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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