Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 273
‘Oh, I’ll leave a space for that,’ said her Daddy.
Who acts: I · What happens: leave, say · To what, where: space, Daddy · 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 (I), 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 | _ | 6 leave | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 leave | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 leave | nsubj |
| 5 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 leave | aux |
| 6 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 space | det |
| 8 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leave | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 that | case |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 leave | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 leave | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 leave | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 Daddy | nmod:poss |
| 15 | Daddy | daddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | future | I | a space | for that | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent space=Theme for that=Recipient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Mummy's Daddy | tree rules |
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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