Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 3

Presently she began to giggle, and her Daddy said, ‘Don’t be silly, child.’

Who acts: Taffy, Daddy · What happens: begin, giggle, say, not be · 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 (Taffy, 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	3 began	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 giggle	mark
5	giggle	giggle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 Daddy	nmod:poss
9	Daddy	daddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 silly	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 silly	punct
13	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 silly	aux
14	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 silly	advmod
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 silly	cop
16	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 child	punct
18	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 silly	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Taffy	presently property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	giggle	to-infinitive	Taffy not said here		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	Taffy's Daddy		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not is	infinitive · do-support		silly property	tree rules

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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