Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 54

The Stranger-man (and he was a Tewara) didn’t say anything, So Taffy put up her little hand and pulled at the beautiful bead and seed and shark-tooth necklace round his neck.

Who acts: man, Stranger man, Taffy · What happens: be, not say, put up, pull · To what, where: Tewara, anything, little hand · 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 (man, Stranger man, 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	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	14 say	nsubj
5	(	(	PUNCT	_	10 Tewara	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Tewara	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 Tewara	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 Tewara	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 Tewara	det
10	Tewara	Tewara	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 man	appos
11	)	)	PUNCT	_	10 Tewara	punct
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 say	aux
13	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 say	advmod
14	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 say	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 put	punct
17	So	so	ADV	_	19 put	advmod
18	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 put	nsubj
19	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 say	parataxis
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 put	compound:prt
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 hand	nmod:poss
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hand	amod
23	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 put	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 pulled	cc
25	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 put	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	29 bead	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 bead	det
28	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 bead	amod
29	bead	bead	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pulled	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 seed	cc
31	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bead	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 necklace	cc
33	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 necklace	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 shark	punct
35	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 necklace	compound
36	necklace	necklace	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bead	conj
37	round	round	ADP	_	39 neck	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 neck	nmod:poss
39	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 necklace	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	man	a Tewara		tree rules
2	not say speech: assert	past · do-support	the Stranger man	anything		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic
3	put up	past	Taffy	Taffy's little hand		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal
4	pull	participle	Taffy not said here		at the beautiful bead and seed and shark tooth necklace round man's neck	vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at bead=Theme

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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