Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 13
They were miles and miles from home (of course they had their lunch with them in a little bag), and Tegumai had forgotten to bring any extra spears.
Who acts: teeth, Tegumai · What happens: be, have, forget, not bring · To what, where: miles, home, lunch, little bag, extra spears
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 (teeth, 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 | 3 miles | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 miles | cop |
| 3 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 miles | cc |
| 5 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 miles | conj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 home | case |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 miles | nmod |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 12 had | advmod |
| 10 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 of | fixed |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 miles | parataxis |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 lunch | nmod:poss |
| 14 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lunch | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 bag | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bag | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bag | amod |
| 20 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obl |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 forgotten | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 forgotten | cc |
| 24 | Tegumai | Tegumai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 forgotten | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 forgotten | aux |
| 26 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 had | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 bring | mark |
| 28 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 forgotten | xcomp |
| 29 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 spears | det |
| 30 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 spears | amod |
| 31 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 bring | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 miles | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | teeth = tooth | miles and miles | home | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | past | teeth = tooth | teeth's lunch | a little bag | with miles = mile | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Patient | ||
| 3 | forget | past · perfect | Tegumai | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not bring | to-infinitive | Tegumai not said here | any extra spears | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent spear=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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