Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 103
Look! there is that girl who saw me running away at the Very Beginning.
Who acts: you, girl, me · What happens: look, be, see, run away · To what, where: me, Beginning
This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Crab That Played With the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, girl, me), 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 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 is | expl |
| 4 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Look | parataxis |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 is | nsubj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 girl | acl:relcl |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | obj |
| 10 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 saw | xcomp |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 running | advmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 Beginning | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Beginning | det |
| 14 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 15 Beginning | advmod |
| 15 | Beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 running | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | be | present | that girl | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | that girl | me | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | run away | gerund | me not said here | at the Beginning | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at beginning=Trajectory |
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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