Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 101

When you draw a hissy-snake by the door of your little back-cave where you mend the spears, I’ll know you’re thinking hard; and I’ll come in most mousy-quiet.

Who acts: you, I, ’re · What happens: draw, mend, know, think, come · To what, where: hissy snake, spears, you, most

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Alphabet Was Made. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, ’re), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 draw	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 draw	nsubj
3	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 know	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 snake	det
5	hissy	hissy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 snake	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 hissy	punct
7	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 draw	obj
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 door	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 door	det
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 draw	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	16 cave	case
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 cave	nmod:poss
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cave	amod
14	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cave	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 back	punct
16	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 door	nmod
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 mend	advmod
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 mend	nsubj
19	mend	mend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 cave	acl:relcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 spears	det
21	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 mend	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 draw	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 know	nsubj
24	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 know	aux
25	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 know	obj
27	’re	're	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 know	obj
28	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 ’re	acl
29	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 thinking	advmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 come	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 come	cc
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 come	nsubj
33	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 come	aux
34	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 know	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 most	case
36	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	34 come	obl
37	mousy	mousy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 quiet	amod
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 mousy	punct
39	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 most	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	present	you	a hissy snake		by the door of your little back cave	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Theme
2	mend	present	you	the spears			tree rules
3	know	future	I	you			tree rules
4	think speech: other	gerund	’re not said here			hard property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	come	future	I		most		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in most=Location

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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