Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 29

Then we can play that it was me jumped out of the dark and s’prised you with that noise--same as I did in the beaver-swamp last winter.’

Who acts: we, noise, I · What happens: play, be, jump out, s'pris, do · To what, where: me, dark, you, beaver swamp

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, noise, I), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 play	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 play	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 play	aux
4	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 jumped	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 jumped	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 me	cop
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 it	parataxis
9	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 play	advcl
10	out	out	ADP	_	13 dark	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 dark	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dark	det
13	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 jumped	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 s’prised	cc
15	s’prised	s'pris	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 jumped	conj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 s’prised	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 noise	case
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 noise	det
19	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 s’prised	obl
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 same	punct
21	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 play	parataxis
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 did	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 did	nsubj
24	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 same	advcl
25	in	in	ADP	_	29 swamp	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 swamp	det
27	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 swamp	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 beaver	punct
29	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 did	obl
30	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 winter	amod
31	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 swamp	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 play	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 play	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	can	we			then		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past		me				tree rules
3	jump out	past	noise	the dark				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location dark=Theme
4	s'pris	participle	noise not said here	you			with that noise	tree rules
5	do	past	I		the beaver swamp and last winter			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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