Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 146

‘Er-um-Pr’aps I’d better ‘splain that I gave him that picture,’ said Taffy, but she did not feel quite comfy.

Who acts: um Pr’aps, I, Taffy · What happens: have, give, say, not feel · To what, where: splain, Tegumai · 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 (um Pr’aps, I, Taffy), 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	_	8 ’d	punct
2	Er	er	INTJ	_	6 Pr’aps	discourse
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Er	punct
4	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Pr’aps	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 um	punct
6	Pr’aps	pr'ap	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ’d	nsubj
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 ’d	nsubj
8	’d	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 said	parataxis
9	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 ’d	xcomp
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 splain	punct
11	splain	splain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ’d	obl
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 gave	obj
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 gave	nsubj
14	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 splain	acl:relcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gave	iobj
16	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 picture	det
17	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gave	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ’d	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 ’d	punct
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 said	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 feel	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 feel	cc
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 feel	nsubj
25	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 feel	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 feel	advmod
27	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	parataxis
28	quite	quite	ADV	_	29 comfy	advmod
29	comfy	comfy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 feel	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	um Pr’aps	splain		good property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	give	past	I	splain	Tegumai		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Taffy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not feel	past · do-support	Taffy			comfy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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