Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 8

As soon as Taffy could run about she went everywhere with her Daddy Tegumai, and sometimes they would not come home to the Cave till they were hungry, and then Teshumai Tewindrow would say, ‘Where in the world have you two been to, to get so shocking dirty?

Who acts: Taffy, manners, Teshumai · What happens: run, go, not come, be, say, have · To what, where: Cave, you, world · 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, manners, Teshumai), 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	As	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	6 run	cc
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 As	fixed
3	as	as	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
4	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 run	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 run	aux
6	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	about	about	SCONJ	_	9 went	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 run	advcl
10	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 went	advmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 Tegumai	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 Tegumai	nmod:poss
13	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Tegumai	compound
14	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 come	cc
17	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 come	advmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 come	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 come	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 come	advmod
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 run	advcl
22	home	home	ADV	_	21 come	advmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 Cave	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Cave	det
25	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 come	obl
26	till	till	SCONJ	_	29 hungry	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 hungry	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 hungry	cop
29	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 come	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 say	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 say	cc
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 say	advmod
33	Teshumai	Teshumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 say	nsubj
34	Tewindrow	Tewindrow	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Teshumai	flat
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 say	aux
36	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 run	parataxis
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 have	punct
38	‘	'	PUNCT	_	43 have	punct
39	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	43 have	advmod
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 world	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 world	det
42	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 have	obl
43	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 say	parataxis
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 have	obj
45	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 have	obj
46	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	43 have	xcomp
47	to	to	ADP	_	46 been	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 get	punct
49	to	to	PART	_	50 get	mark
50	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 say	conj
51	so	so	ADV	_	53 dirty	advmod
52	shocking	shocking	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 dirty	amod
53	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 get	xcomp
54	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 run	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	could	Taffy					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	Taffy				with Taffy's Daddy Tegumai; everywhere property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with tegumai=Beneficiary
3	not come	would	manners		the Cave		home, sometimes property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cave=Initial_Location
4	is	past	manners				hungry property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	would	Teshumai			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	have	present		you	the world			tree rules
7	get	to-infinitive	Teshumai not said here				dirty property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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