Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 142

If you drew the snake and egg, and I thought it meant dinner, and I came in from the wood and found that it meant I was to help Mummy hang the two hides on the drying-poles, what would I do?’

Who acts: you, I, sho, it · What happens: draw, think, mean, come in, find, be · To what, where: snake, dinner, wood, two hides, drying poles · Speech: someone speaks here

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, sho, it), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 drew	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 drew	nsubj
3	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thought	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 snake	det
5	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drew	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 egg	cc
7	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 snake	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 thought	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 thought	nsubj
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 meant	nsubj
13	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thought	ccomp
14	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 meant	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 came	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thought	parataxis
19	in	in	ADV	_	18 came	advmod
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 wood	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wood	det
22	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 found	cc
24	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 came	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 meant	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 meant	nsubj
27	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 found	ccomp
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 help	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 help	cop
30	to	to	PART	_	31 help	mark
31	help	help	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 meant	ccomp
32	Mummy	Mummy	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 help	obj
33	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 help	xcomp
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 hides	det
35	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 hides	nummod
36	hides	hide	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 hang	obj
37	on	on	ADP	_	41 poles	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 poles	det
39	drying	drying	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 poles	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 drying	punct
41	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 hang	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 do	punct
43	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	46 do	obj
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 do	aux
45	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 do	nsubj
46	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 poles	acl:relcl
47	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
48	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw a condition, not said to happen	past	you	the snake and egg			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	mean	past	sho	dinner			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Topic
4	come in	past	I		the wood		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from wood=Initial_Location
5	find	past	I not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	mean	past	it				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	is not said to happen	past	I			help property	tree rules
8	hang not said to happen	infinitive	I not said here	the two hides	the drying poles		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hide=Theme on pole=Destination
9	do	would	I	the drying poles			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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