Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 284

So her Mummy most carefully didn’t; and bright and early next morning Tegumai went down to the river to think about new sound pictures, and when Taffy got up she saw Ya-las (water is ending or running out) chalked on the side of the big stone water-tank, outside the Cave.

Who acts: Mummy, Taffy, water · What happens: not do, go down, think, get up, see, end · To what, where: Ya las, side

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 (Mummy, Taffy, water), 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	_	6 did	advmod
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 Mummy	nmod:poss
3	Mummy	Mummy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 did	nsubj
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 carefully	advmod
5	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	6 did	advmod
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 did	advmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 morning	cc
10	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 morning	amod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 early	cc
12	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bright	conj
13	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 morning	amod
14	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	obl
15	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 morning	appos
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 did	conj
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 went	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 river	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 river	det
20	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	obl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 think	mark
22	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 went	advcl
23	about	about	ADP	_	26 pictures	case
24	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 pictures	amod
25	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pictures	compound
26	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 think	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 saw	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 saw	cc
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 got	advmod
30	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 got	nsubj
31	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 saw	advcl
32	up	up	ADP	_	31 got	compound:prt
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 saw	nsubj
34	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 did	conj
35	Ya	Ya	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 las	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 las	punct
37	las	la	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 saw	obj
38	(	(	PUNCT	_	41 ending	punct
39	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 ending	nsubj
40	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 ending	aux
41	ending	end	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 las	acl
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 running	cc
43	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 ending	conj
44	out	out	ADP	_	43 running	compound:prt
45	)	)	PUNCT	_	41 ending	punct
46	chalked	chalk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 las	acl
47	on	on	ADP	_	49 side	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 side	det
49	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 chalked	obl
50	of	of	ADP	_	56 tank	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 tank	det
52	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 tank	amod
53	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 tank	compound
54	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 tank	compound
55	-	-	PUNCT	_	54 water	punct
56	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 side	nmod
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 Cave	punct
58	outside	outside	ADP	_	60 Cave	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 Cave	det
60	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 saw	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	Mummy's Mummy				carefully property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go down	past	Mummy's Mummy not said here			morning	to the river; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Mummy's Mummy not said here				about new sound pictures	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about picture=Topic
4	get up	past	Taffy					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	see	past	Mummy	Ya las			outside the Cave	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer la=Stimulus
6	end	present · progressive	water	Ya las not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality la=Eventuality
7	run out	gerund	water not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	chalk	participle		Ya las not said here	the side of the big stone water tank			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on side=Destination

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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