Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 290

When they came to T, Taffy said that as her name, and her Daddy’s, and her Mummy’s all began with that sound, they should draw a sort of family group of themselves holding hands.

Who acts: pictures, Taffy, all, Daddy, family group · What happens: come, say, begin, draw, hold, name · To what, where: T, sort, hands, family group · 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 (pictures, Taffy, all, Daddy), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 T	case
5	T	T	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
7	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 name	mark
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 name	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 name	nmod:poss
12	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 draw	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 draw	cc
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 Daddy	nmod:poss
16	Daddy	daddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 draw	nsubj
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 Daddy	case
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 began	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 began	cc
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 Mummy	nmod:poss
21	Mummy	Mummy	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 all	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 Mummy	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 began	nsubj
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 Daddy	conj
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 sound	case
26	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 sound	det
27	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 began	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Daddy	punct
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 draw	nsubj
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 draw	aux
31	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 sort	det
33	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 draw	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 group	case
35	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 group	compound
36	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sort	nmod
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 themselves	case
38	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 group	nmod
39	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 group	acl
40	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 holding	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	pictures = picture		T		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to t=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	Taffy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	begin	past	all			with that sound	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with sound=Subeventuality
4	draw	should	Taffy's Daddy	a sort of family group of pictures			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Theme
5	hold	gerund	family group of pictures not said here	hands			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
6	name		Taffy				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent
7	sort			family group of pictures			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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