Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 81
‘You make your mouth all around like an egg or a stone.
Who acts: You · What happens: make · To what, where: mouth
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), 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 | _ | 3 make | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 make | nsubj |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 around | advmod |
| 7 | around | around | ADV | _ | 3 make | advmod |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 egg | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 egg | det |
| 10 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 stone | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 stone | det |
| 13 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 egg | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | You | your mouth | like a egg or a stone; around property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Product |
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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