Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 289

‘Now come along and we’ll draw all the left-over sound-pictures,’ said her Daddy, and they had a most inciting day of it, and a beautiful lunch in the middle, and two games of romps.

Who acts: we, pictures · What happens: come along, draw, say, have, incite · To what, where: over sound pictures, Daddy, beautiful lunch · 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 (we, pictures), 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	_	3 come	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 come	advmod
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
4	along	along	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 draw	cc
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 draw	nsubj
7	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 draw	aux
8	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 come	conj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 pictures	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 pictures	det
11	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 over	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 left	punct
13	over	over	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 pictures	amod
14	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pictures	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 sound	punct
16	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 draw	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 Daddy	nmod:poss
21	Daddy	daddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 had	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 said	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 day	det
27	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	28 inciting	advmod
28	inciting	incite	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 day	amod
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 day	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 lunch	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 lunch	cc
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 lunch	det
35	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 lunch	amod
36	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obl
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 middle	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 middle	det
39	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 lunch	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 games	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 games	cc
42	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 games	nummod
43	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 had	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 romps	case
45	romps	romp	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 games	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come along	infinitive			now	along property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	draw	future	we	all over sound pictures			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past		water's Daddy			tree rules
4	have	past	pictures = picture	a beautiful lunch in the middle	day	two games of romps obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	incite	gerund					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition

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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