Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 22

Taffy sat down too, with her toes in the water and her chin in her hand, and thought very hard.

Who acts: Taffy · What happens: sit down, think

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	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt
4	too	too	ADV	_	2 sat	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 toes	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 toes	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 toes	nmod:poss
8	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sat	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 water	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 water	det
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 toes	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 chin	cc
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 chin	nmod:poss
14	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 water	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 hand	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hand	nmod:poss
17	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 chin	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 thought	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 thought	cc
20	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 hard	advmod
22	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 thought	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	Taffy					with Taffy's toes in the water and Taffy's chin in Taffy's hand	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	past	Taffy not said here					hard property	vn focus-87.1-1 «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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