Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 139
They were thumping him by twos and threes and tens till his eyes turned round and round.
Who acts: sakes, eyes · What happens: thump, turn · To what, where: spear
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 (sakes, eyes), 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 thumping | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thumping | aux |
| 3 | thumping | thump | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thumping | obj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 twos | case |
| 6 | twos | two | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thumping | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 threes | cc |
| 8 | threes | three | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 twos | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tens | cc |
| 10 | tens | ten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 twos | conj |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 turned | mark |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 turned | nsubj |
| 14 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thumping | advcl |
| 15 | round | round | ADV | _ | 14 turned | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 round | cc |
| 17 | round | round | ADV | _ | 15 round | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thumping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thump | past · progressive | sakes = sake | spear | by twos and threes and tens | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient by two=Location | |||
| 2 | turn | past | spear's eyes | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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