Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 102

And if you draw it on a tree by the river when you are fishing, I’ll know you want me to walk most most mousy-quiet, so as not to shake the banks.’

Who acts: you, I, me · What happens: draw, fish, know, want, walk, not shake · To what, where: ’re, tree, you, me, most, banks

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, me), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	19 know	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 draw	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 draw	nsubj
4	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 know	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 draw	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 tree	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tree	det
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 draw	obl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 river	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 draw	obl
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 fishing	advmod
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 fishing	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 fishing	aux
15	fishing	fish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 draw	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 draw	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 know	nsubj
18	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 know	aux
19	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 know	obj
21	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 know	xcomp
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 want	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 walk	mark
24	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 want	xcomp
25	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 walk	obl
26	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	27 mousy	advmod
27	mousy	mousy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 quiet	amod
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 mousy	punct
29	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 most	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 shake	punct
31	so	so	ADV	_	35 shake	advmod
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 shake	mark
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 shake	advmod
34	to	to	PART	_	35 shake	mark
35	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 walk	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 banks	det
37	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 shake	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 know	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw a condition, not said to happen	present	you	’re = 're	a tree	by the river	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on tree=Destination
2	fish	present · progressive	you				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	know	future	I	you			tree rules
4	want	infinitive	I not said here	me			tree rules
5	walk not said to happen	to-infinitive	me not said here	most			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not shake	to-infinitive	me not said here	the banks			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bank=Patient

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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