Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 76
Her Daddy nodded, and his eyes were shiny bright with ‘citement.
Who acts: Daddy, eyes · What happens: nod, 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 (Daddy, eyes), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 Daddy | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Daddy | daddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nodded | nsubj |
| 3 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bright | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bright | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bright | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 bright | cop |
| 9 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bright | amod |
| 10 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 nodded | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 citement | case |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 citement | punct |
| 13 | citement | citement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bright | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 nodded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nod | past | Taffy's Daddy | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | notion's eyes | with citement; bright property | 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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