Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 89

‘Ssh!’ said her Daddy, and frowned to himself, but Taffy was too incited to notice.

Who acts: Ssh · What happens: say, frown, incite, notice · To what, where: Daddy, lot, Taffy · 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 (Ssh), 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	_	2 Ssh	punct
2	Ssh	Ssh	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ssh	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Ssh	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 Daddy	nmod:poss
7	Daddy	daddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 frowned	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 frowned	cc
10	frowned	frown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 said	ccomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 himself	case
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 frowned	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 incited	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 incited	cc
15	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 incited	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 incited	aux:pass
17	too	too	ADV	_	18 incited	advmod
18	incited	incite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 frowned	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 notice	mark
20	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 incited	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Ssh	Ssh's Daddy		tree rules
2	frown	participle			lot	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
3	incite	past · passive		Taffy		tree rules
4	notice	to-infinitive				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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