Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 200
‘Why, Daddy, it’s raining.
What happens: rain
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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Daddy | punct |
| 4 | Daddy | Daddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ’s | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Daddy | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ’s | nsubj |
| 7 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Why | advcl:relcl |
| 8 | raining | rain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 ’s | xcomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rain | gerund | vn weather-57 «It V PP.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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