Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 226
‘There’s the hissy-snake at the end and the carp-mouth before the snake--as-as-as.
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 | _ | 3 ’s | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 ’s | expl |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 snake | det |
| 5 | hissy | hissy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 snake | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 hissy | punct |
| 7 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ’s | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 end | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 end | det |
| 10 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 snake | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 mouth | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mouth | det |
| 13 | carp | carp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mouth | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 carp | punct |
| 15 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 end | conj |
| 16 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 snake | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 snake | det |
| 18 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ’s | obl |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 as | punct |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 24 as | case |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 as | punct |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 as | fixed |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 as | punct |
| 24 | as | a | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ’s | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’s | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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