Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 94
It’s the noise a snake makes, Daddy, when it is thinking and doesn’t want to be disturbed.
Who acts: noise, bark · What happens: make, think, not want, disturb · To what, where: Daddy
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 (noise, bark), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ’s | nsubj |
| 2 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 noise | det |
| 4 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 makes | nsubj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 snake | det |
| 6 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 makes | nsubj |
| 7 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 ’s | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Daddy | punct |
| 9 | Daddy | Daddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 makes | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thinking | punct |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 thinking | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thinking | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 thinking | aux |
| 14 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 Daddy | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 want | cc |
| 16 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 want | aux |
| 17 | n’t | n't | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 want | aux |
| 18 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 makes | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 disturbed | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 disturbed | aux:pass |
| 21 | disturbed | disturb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 want | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ’s | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | the noise | Daddy | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset daddy=Product | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present · progressive | bark | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not want | present · do-support | the noise not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | disturb not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | the noise not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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