Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 302

In mocassins and deer-skin cloak, Unfearing, free and fair she flits, And lights her little damp-wood smoke To show her Daddy where she flits.

Who acts: Unfearing · What happens: flit, light, show, smoke · To what, where: little damp wood smoke, Daddy

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 (Unfearing), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 mocassins	case
2	mocassins	mocassin	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cloak	obl
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 deer	cc
4	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mocassins	conj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 mocassins	punct
6	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cloak	compound
7	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Unfearing	punct
9	Unfearing	Unfearing	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cloak	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 free	punct
11	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cloak	appos
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fair	cc
13	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 free	conj
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 flits	nsubj
15	flits	flit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 free	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lights	punct
17	And	and	CCONJ	_	18 lights	cc
18	lights	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 flits	conj
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 smoke	nmod:poss
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 smoke	amod
21	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 smoke	amod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 damp	punct
23	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 smoke	compound
24	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lights	obj
25	To	to	PART	_	26 show	mark
26	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 lights	advcl
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 Daddy	nmod:poss
28	Daddy	daddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 show	obj
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 flits	advmod
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 flits	nsubj
31	flits	flit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 Daddy	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cloak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	flit	present	Unfearing		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	light	present	Unfearing not said here	Unfearing's little damp wood smoke	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smoke=Product
3	show	to-infinitive	Unfearing not said here	Unfearing's Daddy	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent daddy=Recipient
4	flit	present	Unfearing		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	smoke		Unfearing		nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=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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