Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 278
‘Besides, you’re getting tired, Taffy.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, get · To what, where: 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: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 5 ’re | punct |
| 2 | Besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 5 ’re | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Besides | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 ’re | nsubj |
| 5 | ’re | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 ’re | xcomp |
| 7 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 getting | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Taffy | punct |
| 9 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ’re | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ’re | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | you | Taffy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | gerund | you not said here | tired property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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