Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 24

Where I come from we each eat twice as much as that between meals.’

Who acts: I · What happens: come, eat · To what, where: much

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Butterfly That Stamped. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	3 come	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 eat	advcl
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 we	case
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 come	obl
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 eat	advmod
7	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 much	advmod
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eat	obj
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 that	case
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 much	obl
13	between	between	ADP	_	14 meals	case
14	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 much	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 eat	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	I					from we	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from we=Initial_Location
2	eat	present		much					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient

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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