Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 94

He did not even ask Taffy the road, but raced off into the bushes like the wind, with the birch-bark in his hand, and Taffy sat down most pleased.

Who acts: Chief, Taffy · What happens: not ask, race off, sit down · To what, where: road, Taffy, bushes

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 (Chief, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ask	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ask	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 ask	advmod
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 ask	advmod
5	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ask	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 road	det
8	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ask	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 raced	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 raced	cc
11	raced	race	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ask	parataxis
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 raced	compound:prt
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 bushes	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bushes	det
15	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 raced	obl
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 wind	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wind	det
18	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bushes	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bark	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	24 bark	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bark	det
22	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bark	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 birch	punct
24	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 raced	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 hand	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hand	nmod:poss
27	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bark	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sat	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sat	cc
30	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 sat	nsubj
31	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 raced	conj
32	down	down	ADP	_	31 sat	compound:prt
33	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	34 pleased	advmod
34	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 sat	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not ask speech: ask	past · do-support	Chief	the road	Taffy			tree rules
2	race off	past				the bushes like the wind	with the birch bark in Chief's hand	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bush=Destination
3	sit down	past	Taffy				pleased property	vn assuming_position-50 «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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