Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 88
The Stranger-man (and he was a Tewara) looked at the picture and nodded very hard.
Who acts: man, Stranger man · What happens: be, look, nod · To what, where: Tewara
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), 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 looked | 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 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 picture | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 picture | det |
| 15 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 looked | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 nodded | cc |
| 17 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 looked | conj |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 hard | advmod |
| 19 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 nodded | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | man | a Tewara | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | past | the Stranger man | at the picture | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at picture=Theme | ||||
| 3 | nod | past | the Stranger man not said here | hard property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: 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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