Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 1
THIS, O Best Beloved, is another story of the High and Far-Off Times.
Who acts: Best Beloved · What happens: be · To what, where: story
This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Beginning of the Armadillos. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Best Beloved), 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 | THIS | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 Beloved | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Beloved | punct |
| 3 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 5 Beloved | vocative |
| 4 | Best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 Beloved | amod |
| 5 | Beloved | Beloved | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 story | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Beloved | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 story | cop |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 story | det |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 High | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 High | det |
| 12 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 story | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Far | cc |
| 14 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 High | conj |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Far | punct |
| 16 | Off | off | ADP | _ | 17 Times | case |
| 17 | Times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Far | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 story | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Best Beloved | another story | of the High | tree rules |
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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