Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 148

‘And p’raps if you were in a hurry you might leave them out, and I’d think it was so when it was sho, and then Mummy would catch me just the same.

Who acts: p’raps, you, I, hurry, Mummy · What happens: be, leave out, have, think, catch · To what, where: hurry, p’raps, sho, me

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 (p’raps, you, I, hurry), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 hurry	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 p’raps	cc
3	p’raps	p'rap	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hurry	nsubj
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 you	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 p’raps	nmod
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hurry	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 hurry	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hurry	det
9	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sho	nsubj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 leave	nsubj
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 leave	aux
12	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hurry	acl:relcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 leave	obj
14	out	out	ADP	_	12 leave	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ’d	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 ’d	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 ’d	nsubj
18	’d	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hurry	conj
19	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 ’d	xcomp
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 think	obj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 sho	cop
22	so	so	ADV	_	26 sho	advmod
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 sho	advmod
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sho	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 sho	cop
26	sho	sho	NOUN	_	root	root
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 catch	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 catch	cc
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 catch	advmod
30	Mummy	Mummy	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 catch	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 catch	aux
32	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 sho	conj
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 catch	obj
34	just	just	ADV	_	36 same	advmod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 same	det
36	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 catch	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 sho	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	p’raps you		a hurry			tree rules
2	leave out	might	you	p’raps = p'rap				vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	have	past	I					tree rules
4	think speech: other	infinitive	I not said here	hurry				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
5	is a	past	a hurry	sho				tree rules
6	catch	would	Mummy	me		then	same property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme

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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