Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 45

She waves her arms and she shouts at me, but I don’t understand a word of what she says.

Who acts: child, I · What happens: wave, shout, not understand, say · To what, where: arms, word · 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 (child, I), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waves	nsubj
2	waves	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 arms	nmod:poss
4	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 waves	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 shouts	cc
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 shouts	nsubj
7	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 waves	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 shouts	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 understand	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 understand	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 understand	nsubj
13	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 understand	aux
14	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 understand	advmod
15	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 waves	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 word	det
17	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 understand	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 what	case
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 word	nmod
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 says	nsubj
21	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 what	acl:relcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 waves	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wave	present	child	child's arms		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient
2	shout speech: express	present	child		at me	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not understand	present · do-support	I	a word		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	present	child			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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