Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 38

The Stranger-man--a genuine Tewara he was--sat down on the grass, and Taffy showed him what her Daddy was doing.

Who acts: Stranger man, Taffy, Daddy · What happens: sit down, show, do · To what, where: grass, man · 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 (Stranger man, Taffy, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
2	Stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 man	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Stranger	punct
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sat	nsubj
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	8 Tewara	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 Tewara	det
7	genuine	genuine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Tewara	amod
8	Tewara	Tewara	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 man	appos
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 was	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 Tewara	acl:relcl
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	4 man	punct
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 sat	compound:prt
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 grass	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 grass	det
16	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sat	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 showed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 showed	cc
19	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 showed	nsubj
20	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sat	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 showed	iobj
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 doing	obj
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 Daddy	nmod:poss
24	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 doing	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 doing	aux
26	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 showed	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	sit down	past	the Stranger man		the grass	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on grass=Location
2	show	past	Taffy	man		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do	past · progressive	Taffy's Daddy			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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