Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 286

‘These picture-sounds are rather a bother!

Who acts: picture sounds · What happens: be · To what, where: bother

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 (picture sounds), 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	_	9 bother	punct
2	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 sounds	det
3	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sounds	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 picture	punct
5	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bother	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 bother	cop
7	rather	rather	ADV	_	9 bother	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bother	det
9	bother	bother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 bother	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	this picture sounds	a bother					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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