Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 51
And he held out his finger and said, ‘Little man, come here.’
Who acts: Suleiman, Little man · What happens: hold out, say, come · To what, where: finger · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Suleiman, Little man), 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 | _ | 3 held | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 held | nsubj |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 held | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 finger | nmod:poss |
| 6 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 held | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 held | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 man | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 man | punct |
| 11 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 man | acl |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 come | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 held | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold out | past | Suleiman | Suleiman's finger | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Suleiman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | infinitive | Little man not said here | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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