Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 109

‘He has stuck my Tegumai all full of spears, and frightened poor Taffy so that her hair stands all on end; and not content with that, he brings me a horrid picture of how it was done.

Who acts: man, hair · What happens: stick, stand, bring, be · To what, where: Tegumai, end, horrid picture, me

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, hair), 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	_	4 stuck	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stuck	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stuck	aux
4	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 Tegumai	nmod:poss
6	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stuck	obj
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 full	advmod
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Tegumai	amod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 spears	case
10	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 full	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Taffy	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Taffy	cc
13	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Taffy	amod
14	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Taffy	amod
15	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Tegumai	conj
16	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	20 stands	mark
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 so	fixed
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hair	nmod:poss
19	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stands	nsubj
20	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stuck	advcl
21	all	all	ADV	_	23 end	advmod
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 end	case
23	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stands	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 content	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 content	cc
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 content	advmod
27	content	content	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stuck	conj
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 that	case
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 content	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 brings	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 brings	nsubj
32	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 content	conj
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 brings	obj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 picture	det
35	horrid	horrid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 picture	amod
36	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 brings	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	41 done	case
38	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	41 done	advmod
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 done	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 done	cop
41	done	done	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 picture	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stuck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	stick	present · perfect	man		my Tegumai and frightened poor Taffy			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent tegumai=Destination
2	stand	present	Teshumai's hair			on end		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on end=Location
3	bring	present	man	a horrid picture	me			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination picture=Theme
4	is	past	hair				done 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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