Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 87

‘My gracious!’ said Taffy, ‘what a lot of noise-pictures we’ve made,--carp-mouth, carp-tail, and egg!

Who acts: Taffy · What happens: say, make · To what, where: we · 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	_	3 gracious	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 gracious	nmod:poss
3	gracious	gracious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	ccomp
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 gracious	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 gracious	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 said	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 lot	det
12	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 what	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 pictures	case
14	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pictures	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 noise	punct
16	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lot	nmod
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 made	nsubj
18	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 made	aux:pass
19	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 pictures	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 mouth	punct
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 mouth	punct
22	carp	carp	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 mouth	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 carp	punct
24	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 made	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tail	punct
26	carp	carp	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tail	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 carp	punct
28	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 mouth	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 egg	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 egg	cc
31	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 what	obl
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Taffy						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	make	present · passive		we				carp mouth and carp tail obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=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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