Just so stories, How the Camel Got His Hump, sentence 49
We shiver and scowl and we grunt and we growl At our bath and our boots and our toys;
Who acts: We · What happens: shiver, grunt, growl
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 (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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 shiver | nsubj |
| 2 | shiver | shiver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 scowl | cc |
| 4 | scowl | scowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shiver | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 grunt | cc |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 grunt | nsubj |
| 7 | grunt | grunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 shiver | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 growl | cc |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 growl | nsubj |
| 10 | growl | growl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 shiver | conj |
| 11 | At | at | ADP | _ | 13 bath | case |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 bath | nmod:poss |
| 13 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 growl | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 boots | cc |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 boots | nmod:poss |
| 16 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bath | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 toys | cc |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 toys | nmod:poss |
| 19 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 boots | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 shiver | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shiver | present | We | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | grunt | present | we | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | growl | present | we | at our bath and our boots and our toys | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at bath=Stimulus |
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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