Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 179

THERE runs a road by Merrow Down-- A grassy track to-day it is An hour out of Guildford town, Above the river Wey it is.

Who acts: road · What happens: run, be · To what, where: road, river Wey, hour, Guildford town

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 (road), 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	THERE	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 runs	expl
2	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 road	det
4	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 runs	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 Down	case
6	Merrow	Merrow	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Down	compound
7	Down	Down	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 runs	obl
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 track	punct
9	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 track	det
10	grassy	grassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 track	amod
11	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 runs	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 day	case
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 to	punct
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 track	nmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hour	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 hour	cop
17	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hour	det
18	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 runs	parataxis
19	out	out	ADP	_	22 town	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 town	case
21	Guildford	Guildford	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 town	compound
22	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hour	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Wey	punct
24	Above	above	ADP	_	27 Wey	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Wey	det
26	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Wey	compound
27	Wey	Wey	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 runs	obl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 is	nsubj
29	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 runs	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 runs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	present		a road	the river Wey; there	by Merrow Down	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent road=Theme by down=Trajectory
2	is a	present	road	a hour	Guildford town		tree rules
3	be	present	road				vn exist-47.1 «NP 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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