Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 212
(Daddies didn’t mind doing those things in those days.)
Who acts: Daddies · What happens: not mind, do · To what, where: things
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 (Daddies), 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 | _ | 5 mind | punct |
| 2 | Daddies | daddy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 mind | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mind | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 mind | advmod |
| 5 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 mind | xcomp |
| 7 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 things | det |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 doing | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 days | case |
| 10 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 days | det |
| 11 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 doing | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mind | punct |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind | past · do-support | Daddies | vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | do | gerund | Daddies not said here | that things | day | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
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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