Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 287

Daddy’s just as good as come here himself and told me to get more water for Mummy to cook with.’

Who acts: more water · What happens: come, tell, get, cook · To what, where: Um, me, more water · 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 (more 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	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 good	nmod:poss
2	’s	's	PART	_	1 Daddy	case
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 good	advmod
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 good	advmod
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 come	mark
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 good	csubj
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 come	advmod
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 come	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 come	conj
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 get	mark
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 told	xcomp
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 water	amod
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 get	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 Mummy	case
18	Mummy	Mummy	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 get	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 cook	mark
20	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 get	xcomp
21	with	with	ADP	_	20 cook	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 good	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	infinitive		Um		here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past			me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	get not said to happen	to-infinitive		more water			for Mummy	tree rules
4	cook	to-infinitive	more water not said here					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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