Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 227

We only want la-la,’ said Taffy.

Who acts: We, Taffy · What happens: want, say · To what, where: la · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (We, Taffy), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 want	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 want	advmod
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
4	la	la	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 want	obj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 la	punct
6	la	la	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 la	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	We	la and la					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot la=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Taffy						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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