Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 30
‘Really?’ said her Daddy, in the voice that grown-ups use when they are truly attending.
Who acts: Daddy, grown ups, ups · What happens: say, grow, use, attend · To what, where: voice · 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 (Daddy, grown ups, ups), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Really | really | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Really | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 Daddy | nmod:poss |
| 7 | Daddy | Daddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 voice | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 voice | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 voice | det |
| 11 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 use | obj |
| 13 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 ups | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 grown | punct |
| 15 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 use | nsubj |
| 16 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 voice | acl:relcl |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 attending | advmod |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 attending | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 attending | aux |
| 20 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 21 attending | advmod |
| 21 | attending | attend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 use | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Mummy's Daddy | the voice | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in voice=Manner | ||||
| 2 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | use | present | grown ups | the voice | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | ||||
| 4 | attend | present · progressive | ups = up | truly property | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: 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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