Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 183
Then beavers built in Broadstone brook And made a swamp where Bramley stands: And bears from Shere would come and look For Taffimai where Shamley stands.
Who acts: beavers, Bramley, bears, Shamley · What happens: build, make, stand, come, look · To what, where: swamp
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 (beavers, Bramley, bears, Shamley), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 built | advmod |
| 2 | beavers | beaver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 built | nsubj |
| 3 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Broadstone | case |
| 5 | Broadstone | Broadstone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 built | obl |
| 6 | brook | brook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Broadstone | flat |
| 7 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 made | cc |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 built | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 swamp | det |
| 10 | swamp | swamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obj |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 stands | advmod |
| 12 | Bramley | Bramley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 stands | nsubj |
| 13 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 swamp | acl:relcl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 come | punct |
| 15 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 come | cc |
| 16 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 come | nsubj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 Shere | case |
| 18 | Shere | Shere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 bears | nmod |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 come | aux |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 built | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 look | cc |
| 22 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 come | conj |
| 23 | For | for | ADP | _ | 24 Taffimai | case |
| 24 | Taffimai | Taffimai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 look | obl |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 stands | advmod |
| 26 | Shamley | Shamley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 stands | nsubj |
| 27 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 Taffimai | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | beavers | then | in Broadstone | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in broadstone=Attribute | |||
| 2 | make | past | beavers not said here | a swamp | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset swamp=Product | ||||
| 3 | stand | present | Bramley | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | come | would | bears from Shere | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | look | infinitive | bears from Shere not said here | for Taffimai | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for taffimai=Theme | ||||
| 6 | stand | present | Shamley | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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