Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 294

Many of the other pictures were much too beautiful to begin with, especially before lunch, but as they were drawn over and over again on birch-bark, they became plainer and easier, till at last even Tegumai said he could find no fault with them.

Who acts: Many, pictures, Tegumai, T · What happens: be, begin, draw, become, say, find · To what, where: pictures, birch bark, fault · 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 (Many, pictures, Tegumai, T), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 beautiful	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 pictures	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pictures	det
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pictures	amod
5	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Many	nmod
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 beautiful	cop
7	much	much	ADV	_	9 beautiful	advmod
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 beautiful	advmod
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 begin	mark
11	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 beautiful	advcl
12	with	with	ADP	_	16 lunch	case
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lunch	punct
14	especially	especially	ADV	_	16 lunch	advmod
15	before	before	ADP	_	16 lunch	case
16	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 begin	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 drawn	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 drawn	cc
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 drawn	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 drawn	nsubj:pass
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 drawn	aux:pass
22	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 beautiful	advcl
23	over	over	ADV	_	22 drawn	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 over	cc
25	over	over	ADV	_	23 over	conj
26	again	again	ADV	_	22 drawn	advmod
27	on	on	ADP	_	30 bark	case
28	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bark	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 birch	punct
30	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 drawn	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 became	punct
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 became	nsubj
33	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 drawn	conj
34	plainer	plain	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 became	xcomp
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 easier	cc
36	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 plainer	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 last	punct
38	till	till	ADP	_	40 last	case
39	at	at	ADP	_	40 last	case
40	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 became	xcomp
41	even	even	ADV	_	42 Tegumai	advmod
42	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 said	nsubj
43	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 last	acl:relcl
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 find	nsubj
45	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 find	aux
46	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 said	ccomp
47	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	48 fault	det
48	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 find	obj
49	with	with	ADP	_	50 them	case
50	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 find	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 beautiful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Many of the other pictures				beautiful property	tree rules
2	begin	to-infinitive	Many of the other pictures not said here				with lunch	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with lunch=Subeventuality
3	draw	past · passive		pictures = picture	birch bark	again	over property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on bark=Destination
4	become	past	pictures = picture				last, plain property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	say speech: assert	past	Tegumai					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	find	could	T	no fault			with pictures = picture	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Topic

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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