Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 292
You can see from these three pictures partly how it happened.
Who acts: You, it · What happens: see, happen · To what, where: three pictures
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 (You, it), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 pictures | case |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 pictures | det |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 pictures | nummod |
| 7 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 see | obl |
| 8 | partly | partly | ADV | _ | 3 see | advmod |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 happened | advmod |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 happened | nsubj |
| 11 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | parataxis |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | can | You | this three pictures | partly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | happen | past | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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