Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 106
And the little girl-daughter said, ‘This is a good nut that I am eating.
Who acts: little girl daughter, This, I · What happens: say, be, eat · To what, where: good nut · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (little girl daughter, This, I), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 daughter | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 daughter | amod |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 daughter | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 girl | punct |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 nut | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 nut | punct |
| 10 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 nut | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 nut | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 nut | det |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 nut | amod |
| 14 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 eating | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 eating | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 eating | aux |
| 18 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 nut | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the little girl daughter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | This | a good nut | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | eat | present · progressive | I | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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