Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 33

‘Silly!’ said Taffy, and she stamped her foot, because she saw a shoal of very big carp going up the river just when her Daddy couldn’t use his spear.

Who acts: Taffy, big carp, Daddy · What happens: say, stamp, see, go up, not use · To what, where: foot, shoal, river, spear · 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, big carp, Daddy), 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 said	punct
2	Silly	silly	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Silly	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Silly	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stamped	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stamped	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stamped	nsubj
10	stamped	stamp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 foot	nmod:poss
12	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stamped	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 saw	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stamped	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 shoal	det
18	shoal	shoal	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 carp	case
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 big	advmod
21	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 carp	amod
22	carp	carp	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shoal	nmod
23	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 carp	acl
24	up	up	ADP	_	26 river	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 river	det
26	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 going	obl
27	just	just	ADV	_	33 use	advmod
28	when	when	SCONJ	_	33 use	mark
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 Daddy	nmod:poss
30	Daddy	daddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 use	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 use	aux
32	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 use	advmod
33	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 going	xcomp
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 spear	nmod:poss
35	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 use	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Taffy		silly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	stamp	past	Taffy	Taffy's foot		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Destination
3	see	past	Taffy	a shoal of big carp		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shoal=Stimulus
4	go up	gerund	big carp not said here	the river		tree rules
5	not use	could	Taffy's Daddy	man's spear		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Patient

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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