Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 14

‘Here’s a pretty kettle of fish!’ said Tegumai.

Who acts: pretty kettle, Tegumai · 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 (pretty kettle, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 said	parataxis
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kettle	det
5	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kettle	amod
6	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Here	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 fish	case
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kettle	nmod
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a pretty kettle of fish					here property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Tegumai						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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