Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 259
But what about this rrrrr-thing, Taffy?’
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 thing | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 thing | nsubj |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 thing | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 thing | det |
| 5 | rrrrr | rrrrr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thing | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 rrrrr | punct |
| 7 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Taffy | punct |
| 9 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 thing | appos |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 Taffy | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 thing | 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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