Just so stories, How the Camel Got His Hump, sentence 46

THE Camel’s hump is an ugly lump Which well you may see at the Zoo; But uglier yet is the hump we get From having too little to do.

Who acts: hump, ugly lump, you, we · What happens: be, well, see, get, have, do · To what, where: ugly lump, Zoo, hump, little

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 (hump, ugly lump, you, we), 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	THE	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Camel	det
2	Camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hump	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 Camel	case
4	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lump	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lump	cop
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lump	det
7	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lump	amod
8	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hump	nsubj
9	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 well	nsubj
10	well	well	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lump	acl:relcl
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 see	nsubj
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 see	aux
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 well	ccomp
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 Zoo	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Zoo	det
16	Zoo	Zoo	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 see	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 uglier	punct
18	But	but	CCONJ	_	19 uglier	cc
19	uglier	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 lump	amod
20	yet	yet	ADV	_	19 uglier	advmod
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 hump	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hump	det
23	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 get	nsubj
25	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 hump	acl:relcl
26	From	from	SCONJ	_	27 having	mark
27	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 get	advcl
28	too	too	ADV	_	29 little	advmod
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 having	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 do	mark
31	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 little	acl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 hump	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	the Camel's hump	a ugly lump		tree rules
2	well	past	a ugly lump			tree rules
3	see	may	you		the Zoo	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	present	a ugly lump	the hump		tree rules
5	get	present	we	the hump not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hump=Stimulus
6	have	gerund	we not said here	little		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Patient
7	do	to-infinitive				vn act-114-1 «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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