Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 104

Taffy was very like Teshumai, especially about the upper part of the face and the eyes, so the Stranger-man--always a pure Tewara--smiled politely and handed Teshumai the birch-bark.

Who acts: Taffy · What happens: be, smile, hand · To what, where: birch bark, Teshumai

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the First Letter Was Written. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Taffy), 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	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 smiled	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Teshumai	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	5 Teshumai	advmod
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 Teshumai	case
5	Teshumai	Teshumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Taffy	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 part	punct
7	especially	especially	ADV	_	11 part	advmod
8	about	about	ADP	_	11 part	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 part	det
10	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 part	amod
11	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Taffy	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 face	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 face	det
14	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 part	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 eyes	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 eyes	det
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 face	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 man	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	23 man	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 man	det
21	Stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 man	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 Stranger	punct
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Taffy	appos
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 Tewara	punct
25	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	28 Tewara	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 Tewara	det
27	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Tewara	amod
28	Tewara	Tewara	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 man	conj
29	--	--	PUNCT	_	1 Taffy	punct
30	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	politely	politely	ADV	_	30 smiled	advmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 handed	cc
33	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 smiled	conj
34	Teshumai	Teshumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 handed	obj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 bark	det
36	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 bark	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 birch	punct
38	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 handed	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 smiled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Taffy and Teshumai not said here			like Teshumai	tree rules
2	smile	past	Taffy and Teshumai			politely property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hand	past	Taffy and Teshumai not said here	the birch bark	Teshumai		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent teshumai=Destination bark=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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