Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 106
She sends ‘em abroad on her own affairs, From the second she opens her eyes-- One million Hows, two million Wheres, And seven million Whys!
Who acts: folk · What happens: send, open · To what, where: em, own affairs, eyes
This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant’s Child. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (folk), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sends | nsubj |
| 2 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 em | punct |
| 4 | em | they | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sends | obl |
| 5 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 2 sends | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 affairs | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 affairs | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 affairs | amod |
| 9 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sends | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 opens | punct |
| 11 | From | from | ADP | _ | 13 second | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 second | det |
| 13 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 opens | obl |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 opens | nsubj |
| 15 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sends | parataxis |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 opens | obj |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 Hows | punct |
| 19 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 million | compound |
| 20 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 Hows | nummod |
| 21 | Hows | how | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 eyes | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Wheres | punct |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 million | compound |
| 24 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 Wheres | nummod |
| 25 | Wheres | where | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 eyes | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Whys | punct |
| 27 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 Whys | cc |
| 28 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 million | compound |
| 29 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 Whys | nummod |
| 30 | Whys | why | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sends | obl |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 sends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present | folk | em = they | folk's own affairs | million Whys obl; abroad property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | open | present | folk | folk's eyes and million Hows and million Wheres | from the second | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=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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