Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 150

I think we’d better draw a picture of the horrid high drying-poles their very selves, and make quite sure.

Who acts: I, we · What happens: think, have, draw, make · To what, where: picture · 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 (I, we), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 think	nsubj
2	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 ’d	nsubj
4	’d	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 think	ccomp
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 ’d	xcomp
6	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ’d	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 picture	det
8	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 draw	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	15 poles	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 poles	det
11	horrid	horrid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 poles	amod
12	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 poles	amod
13	drying	drying	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 poles	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 drying	punct
15	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 picture	nmod
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 selves	nmod:poss
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 selves	advmod
18	selves	self	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 poles	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 make	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 make	cc
21	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 think	conj
22	quite	quite	ADV	_	23 sure	advmod
23	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 make	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	I			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	past	we		good property	tree rules
3	draw	infinitive	we not said here	a picture of the horrid high drying poles and poles's selves		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme
4	make	present	I not said here		sure property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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