Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 18
‘It’s too far for your little fat legs,’ said Tegumai.
Who acts: Cave, 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 (Cave, 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 | _ | 5 far | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 far | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 far | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 far | advmod |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 said | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 legs | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 legs | nmod:poss |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 legs | amod |
| 9 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 legs | amod |
| 10 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 far | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 far | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 far | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Tegumai | Tegumai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Cave | for your little fat legs; far 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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