Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 106
As soon as Teshumai saw the picture she screamed like anything and flew at the Stranger-man.
Who acts: Teshumai · What happens: see, scream, fly · To what, where: picture
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 (Teshumai), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 saw | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 saw | mark |
| 4 | Teshumai | Teshumai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 picture | det |
| 7 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 screamed | nsubj |
| 9 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 picture | acl:relcl |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 anything | case |
| 11 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 screamed | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 flew | cc |
| 13 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 screamed | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 man | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 16 | Stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 man | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Stranger | punct |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flew | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Teshumai | the picture | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer picture=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | scream speech: express | past | Teshumai | the picture not said here | like anything | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Topic | |||
| 3 | fly | past | Teshumai not said here | at the Stranger man | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at man=Location |
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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