Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 128

They were all there, prancing and shouting, and they frightened every fish for twenty miles, and Tegumai thanked them in a fluid Neolithic oration.

Who acts: legs, Tegumai · What happens: be, prance, shout, frighten, thank · To what, where: fish, legs, fluid Neolithic oration

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 (legs, Tegumai), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 there	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 there	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 there	advmod
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 prancing	punct
6	prancing	prance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 there	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 shouting	cc
8	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 prancing	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 frightened	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 frightened	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 frightened	nsubj
12	frightened	frighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 there	parataxis
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 fish	det
14	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 frightened	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 miles	case
16	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 miles	nummod
17	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 frightened	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 thanked	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 thanked	cc
20	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 thanked	nsubj
21	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 frightened	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 thanked	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	27 oration	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 oration	det
25	fluid	fluid	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 oration	compound
26	Neolithic	neolithic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 oration	amod
27	oration	oration	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 thanked	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 there	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	legs = leg				all, there property	tree rules
2	prance	gerund	legs = leg not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	shout speech: express	gerund	legs = leg not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	frighten	past	legs = leg	every fish			for twenty miles	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fish=Experiencer
5	thank speech: thank	past	Tegumai		legs = leg	a fluid Neolithic oration		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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