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Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 288

She went to the spring at the back of the house and filled the tank from a bark bucket, and then she ran down to the river and pulled her Daddy’s left ear--the one that belonged to her to pull when she was good.

Who acts: water, one · What happens: go, fill, run down, pull, belong, be · To what, where: back, tank, bark bucket, left ear, water

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 (water, one), 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

nsubjcasedetoblcasedetoblcasedetnmodccconjdetobjcasedetcompoundoblpunctccadvmodnsubjconjadvmodcasedetoblccconjnmod:possnmod:posscaseamodobjpunctdetapposnsubjacl:relclcaseoblmarkadvclmarknsubjcopadvclpunctrootShePRONwentVERBtoADPtheDETspringNOUNatADPtheDETbackNOUNofADPtheDEThouseNOUNandCCONJfilledVERBtheDETtankNOUNfromADPaDETbarkNOUNbucketNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJthenADVshePRONranVERBdownADVtoADPtheDETriverNOUNandCCONJpulledVERBherPRONDaddyPROPN’sPARTleftADJearNOUN--PUNCTtheDEToneNOUNthatPRONbelongedVERBtoADPherPRONtoPARTpullVERBwhenSCONJshePRONwasAUXgoodADJ.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 wentnsubj
2wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3totoADP_5 springcase
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 springdet
5springspringNOUNNumber=Sing2 wentobl
6atatADP_8 backcase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 backdet
8backbackNOUNNumber=Sing2 wentobl
9ofofADP_11 housecase
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 housedet
11househouseNOUNNumber=Sing8 backnmod
12andandCCONJ_13 filledcc
13filledfillVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 wentconj
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 tankdet
15tanktankNOUNNumber=Sing13 filledobj
16fromfromADP_19 bucketcase
17aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art19 bucketdet
18barkbarkNOUNNumber=Sing19 bucketcompound
19bucketbucketNOUNNumber=Sing13 filledobl
20,,PUNCT_24 ranpunct
21andandCCONJ_24 rancc
22thenthenADVPronType=Dem24 ranadvmod
23sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 rannsubj
24ranrunVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 wentconj
25downdownADV_24 ranadvmod
26totoADP_28 rivercase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 riverdet
28riverriverNOUNNumber=Sing24 ranobl
29andandCCONJ_30 pulledcc
30pulledpullVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 wentconj
31herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs32 Daddynmod:poss
32DaddyDaddyPROPNNumber=Sing35 earnmod:poss
33’s'sPART_32 Daddycase
34leftleftADJDegree=Pos35 earamod
35earearNOUNNumber=Sing30 pulledobj
36----PUNCT_38 onepunct
37thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art38 onedet
38oneoneNOUNNumber=Sing35 earappos
39thatthatPRONPronType=Rel40 belongednsubj
40belongedbelongVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin38 oneacl:relcl
41totoADP_42 hercase
42hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs40 belongedobl
43totoPART_44 pullmark
44pullpullVERBVerbForm=Inf40 belongedadvcl
45whenwhenSCONJ_48 goodmark
46sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs48 goodnsubj
47wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin48 goodcop
48goodgoodADJDegree=Pos44 pulladvcl
49..PUNCT_2 wentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1gopastwaterthe back of the housespringvn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at back=Location
2fillpastwater not said herethe tanka bark bucketvn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tank=Patient
3run downpastwaterthento the river result; down propertyvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to river=Result
4pullpastwater not said herewater's Daddy's left earvn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme
5belongpastthe onewatervn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
6pullto-infinitivethe one not said herevn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7ispastwatergood propertytree 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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