Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 105
He had run hard, so that he panted, and his legs were scratched with brambles, but he still tried to be polite.
Who acts: man · What happens: run, pant, scratch, try, be · To what, where: legs
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 (man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 run | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 run | aux |
| 3 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 run | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 panted | punct |
| 6 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 9 panted | mark |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 so | fixed |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 panted | nsubj |
| 9 | panted | pant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 run | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 scratched | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 scratched | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 legs | nmod:poss |
| 13 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 scratched | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 scratched | aux:pass |
| 15 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 run | advcl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 brambles | case |
| 17 | brambles | bramble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 scratched | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 tried | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 tried | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 tried | nsubj |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 tried | advmod |
| 22 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 run | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 polite | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 polite | cop |
| 25 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 tried | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past · perfect | man | hard property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pant | past | man | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | scratch | past · passive | man's legs | with brambles | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient with bramble=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | try | past | man | still | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | man not said here | polite property | 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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