Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 23
Do say ah, Daddy, and keep your mouth open at the end, and lend me that tooth.
What happens: say, keep, lend · To what, where: mouth, end, tooth, me · 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: 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 say | aux |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 2 say | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Daddy | punct |
| 5 | Daddy | Daddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ah | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 keep | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 keep | cc |
| 8 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 say | conj |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 keep | obj |
| 11 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 keep | xcomp |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 end | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 end | det |
| 14 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 keep | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lend | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lend | cc |
| 17 | lend | lend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 say | parataxis |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 lend | iobj |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 tooth | det |
| 20 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lend | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · do-support | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ah=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | keep | infinitive | your mouth | at the end | open property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme at end=Location | |||
| 3 | lend | infinitive | that tooth | me | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient tooth=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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