Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 39

‘That’s not bad,’ said Tegumai, and scratched on his own piece of bark for himself; but you’ve forgotten the feeler that hangs across his mouth.’

Who acts: That, Tegumai, feeler · What happens: not be, say, scratch, forget, hang · To what, where: own piece, you, mouth · 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 (That, Tegumai, feeler), 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 bad	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 bad	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bad	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 bad	advmod
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bad	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 bad	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 scratched	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 scratched	cc
12	scratched	scratch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 said	xcomp
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 piece	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 piece	nmod:poss
15	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 piece	amod
16	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 scratched	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 bark	case
18	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 piece	nmod
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 himself	case
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 bark	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 forgotten	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 forgotten	cc
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 forgotten	nsubj
24	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 forgotten	aux:pass
25	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 said	ccomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 feeler	det
27	feeler	feeler	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 forgotten	obj
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 hangs	nsubj
29	hangs	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 feeler	acl:relcl
30	across	across	ADP	_	32 mouth	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 mouth	nmod:poss
32	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hangs	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 forgotten	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	25 forgotten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	present	That			bad property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Tegumai				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	scratch	participle	Tegumai not said here		rest's own piece of bark for rest		vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent on piece=Location
4	forget	present · passive		you			tree rules
5	hang	present	the feeler		rest's mouth		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across mouth=Destination

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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