Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 253

Mum shuts one’s mouth up, doesn’t it?

Who acts: Mum · What happens: shut up, not do · To what, where: one mouth, mouth

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 (Mum), 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	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shuts	nsubj
2	shuts	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 mouth	nummod
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 one	case
5	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shuts	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	2 shuts	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 does	punct
8	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shuts	conj
9	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 does	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 does	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 shuts	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shut up	present	Mum	one mouth					vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient
2	not do	present	Mum not said here	mouth					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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