Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 82
So an egg or a stone will do for that.’
Who acts: egg · What happens: do
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 (egg), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 do | advmod |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 egg | det |
| 3 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | nsubj |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 stone | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stone | det |
| 6 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 egg | conj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | aux |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 that | case |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 do | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | SYM | _ | 8 do | discourse |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | future | a egg or a stone | for that | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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