Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 300
But as the faithful years return And hearts unwounded sing again, Comes Taffy dancing through the fern To lead the Surrey spring again.
Who acts: faithful years, Comes · What happens: return, dance, lead · To what, where: unwounded sing, fern
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 (faithful years, Comes), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 dancing | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 return | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 years | det |
| 4 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 years | amod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 return | nsubj |
| 6 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 dancing | advcl |
| 7 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hearts | cc |
| 8 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 return | conj |
| 9 | unwounded | unwounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sing | amod |
| 10 | sing | sing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 return | obl |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 return | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 return | punct |
| 13 | Comes | Comes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 dancing | nsubj |
| 14 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Comes | flat |
| 15 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 fern | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fern | det |
| 18 | fern | fern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dancing | obl |
| 19 | To | to | PART | _ | 20 lead | mark |
| 20 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 dancing | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 spring | det |
| 22 | Surrey | Surrey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 spring | compound |
| 23 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lead | obj |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 lead | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 dancing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | present | the faithful years | unwounded sing | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | dance | gerund | Comes | the fern | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through fern=Location | ||||
| 3 | lead | to-infinitive | Comes not said here | again; spring | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
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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