Just so stories, How the Camel Got His Hump, sentence 21

‘He says “Humph!”’ said the Dog; ‘and he won’t fetch and carry.’

Who acts: Whew, Humph · What happens: say, not fetch, carry · To what, where: Dog · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Camel Got His Hump. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Whew, Humph), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 Humph	punct
5	Humph	Humph	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 Humph	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 Humph	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 Humph	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Dog	det
11	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 ‘	punct
13	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fetch	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 fetch	nsubj
16	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 fetch	aux
17	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 fetch	advmod
18	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 carry	cc
20	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 fetch	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Whew			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	Humph	the Dog	‘ obl	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dog=Topic
3	not fetch	future	Whew			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	carry	infinitive	Whew not said here			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: 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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