Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 59

‘It’s very like the carp-fish-mouth noise.

Who acts: yer · What happens: be

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 (yer), 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	_	12 noise	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 noise	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 noise	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	12 noise	advmod
5	like	like	ADP	_	12 noise	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 noise	det
7	carp	carp	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fish	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 carp	punct
9	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mouth	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 fish	punct
11	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 noise	compound
12	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 noise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	yer					like the mouth noise	tree rules

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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