Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 5

‘Don’t you remember how the Head Chief puffed out his cheeks, and how funny the nice Stranger-man looked with the mud in his hair?’

Who acts: you, Head Chief, nice Stranger man · What happens: not do, remember, puff out, look · To what, where: cheeks · 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 (you, Head Chief, nice Stranger man), 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	_	2 Do	punct
2	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 Do	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 remember	nsubj
5	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Do	parataxis
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 puffed	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Chief	det
8	Head	Head	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Chief	compound
9	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 puffed	nsubj
10	puffed	puff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 remember	ccomp
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 puffed	compound:prt
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 cheeks	nmod:poss
13	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 puffed	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 looked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 looked	cc
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 funny	advmod
17	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 looked	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 man	det
19	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 man	amod
20	Stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 man	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 Stranger	punct
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 looked	nsubj
23	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Do	advcl
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 mud	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 mud	det
26	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 looked	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 hair	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hair	nmod:poss
29	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 looked	obl
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Do	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not do	imperative	you not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	remember	present	you			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	puff out	past	the Head Chief	Chief's cheeks		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cheek=Source
4	look	past	the nice Stranger man		with the mud; in Chief's hair; funny property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in hair=Theme

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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