Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 219

River come to.) what a lot of new sounds!

Who acts: River · What happens: come

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 (River), 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	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	6 what	mark
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 to	punct
5	)	)	PUNCT	_	3 to	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 come	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lot	det
8	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 what	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 sounds	case
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sounds	amod
11	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lot	nmod
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	infinitive	River						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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