Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 16

‘There’s your big black spear at home,’ said Taffy.

Who acts: Taffy · What happens: 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 (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	_	3 ’s	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 ’s	expl
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 spear	nmod:poss
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 spear	amod
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 spear	amod
7	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ’s	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 home	case
9	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spear	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 ’s	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 ’s	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Taffy						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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