Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 108
‘It’s as plain as the nose on this Stranger-man’s face,’ she said.
Who acts: hair, Teshumai · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (hair, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 plain | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 plain | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 plain | cop |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 plain | advmod |
| 5 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 said | ccomp |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 nose | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 nose | det |
| 8 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plain | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 face | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 man | det |
| 11 | Stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 man | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Stranger | punct |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 face | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 man | case |
| 15 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nose | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 plain | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 plain | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | hair | as the nose on this Stranger man's face; plain property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Teshumai | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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