Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 95
‘It looks very ugly,’ said his hairy uncle, the Baboon.
Who acts: dinner · What happens: look, say · To what, where: hairy uncle · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (dinner), 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 looks | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looks | nsubj |
| 3 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 ugly | advmod |
| 5 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 looks | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looks | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hairy | hairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 uncle | amod |
| 11 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Baboon | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Baboon | det |
| 14 | Baboon | Baboon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 uncle | appos |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | dinner | ugly property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | dinner not said here | Child's hairy uncle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent uncle=Topic |
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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