Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 52
‘Now, make another noise,’ said Taffy, very proud.
Who acts: Taffy · What happens: make, say · To what, where: noise · 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 (Taffy), 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 | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 make | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 noise | det |
| 6 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 proud | punct |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 proud | advmod |
| 13 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | infinitive | another noise | now | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Taffy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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