Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 281

So they went home, and all that evening Tegumai sat on one side of the fire and Taffy on the other, drawing ya’s and yo’s and shu’s and shi’s in the smoke on the wall and giggling together till her Mummy said, ‘Really, Tegumai, you’re worse than my Taffy.’

Who acts: las, Tegumai, Mummy, you · What happens: go, sit, draw, giggle, say, be · To what, where: one side, ya ’s, smoke · 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 (las, Tegumai, Mummy, 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sat	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sat	cc
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 evening	det:predet
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 evening	det
9	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sat	obl:unmarked
10	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 sat	nsubj
11	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 side	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 side	nummod
14	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sat	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 fire	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fire	det
17	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 side	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 Taffy	cc
19	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 fire	conj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 other	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 other	det
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sat	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 drawing	punct
24	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 sat	advcl
25	ya	ya	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ’s	compound
26	’s	'	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 drawing	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 ’s	cc
28	yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ’s	compound
29	’s	'	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 ’s	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 ’s	cc
31	shu	shu	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ’s	compound
32	’s	'	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 ’s	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 ’s	cc
34	shi	shi	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 ’s	compound
35	’s	'	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 ’s	conj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 smoke	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 smoke	det
38	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drawing	obl
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 wall	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 wall	det
41	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drawing	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 giggling	cc
43	giggling	giggle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 drawing	conj
44	together	together	ADV	_	43 giggling	advmod
45	till	till	SCONJ	_	48 said	mark
46	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 Mummy	nmod:poss
47	Mummy	Mummy	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 said	nsubj
48	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 giggling	advcl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 Tegumai	punct
50	‘	'	PUNCT	_	53 Tegumai	punct
51	Really	really	ADV	_	53 Tegumai	advmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 Tegumai	punct
53	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 said	ccomp
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 ’re	punct
55	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	56 ’re	nsubj
56	’re	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 Tegumai	conj
57	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	56 ’re	xcomp
58	than	than	ADP	_	60 Taffy	case
59	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 Taffy	nmod:poss
60	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 worse	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
62	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	las = la				home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	past	Tegumai		one side of the fire and Taffy	evening	on the other	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location
3	draw	gerund	Tegumai not said here	ya ’s and yo ’s and shu ’s and shi ’s	the smoke		on the wall	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent '=Theme in smoke=Destination
4	giggle	gerund	Tegumai not said here				together property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	past	Tegumai's Mummy					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	does	present	you				bad property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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