Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 163

‘We won’t have beavers or hills this time, eh?’ said her Daddy, ‘I’ll just draw a straight line for my spear.’ and he drew this.

Who acts: We, I, man · What happens: not have, say, draw · To what, where: beavers, Daddy, straight line, this · 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 (We, I, man), 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	_	5 have	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
3	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 have	advmod
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
6	beavers	beaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 hills	cc
8	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 beavers	conj
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
12	eh	eh	INTJ	_	5 have	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 Daddy	nmod:poss
17	Daddy	daddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 draw	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 draw	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 draw	nsubj
21	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 draw	aux
22	just	just	ADV	_	23 draw	advmod
23	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 line	det
25	straight	straight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 line	amod
26	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 draw	obj
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 spear	case
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 spear	nmod:poss
29	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 draw	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 draw	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 draw	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 drew	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 drew	nsubj
34	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	conj
35	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 drew	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not have	future	We	beavers or hills	time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beaver=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past		Daddy's Daddy			tree rules
3	draw	future	I	a straight line		for my spear	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent line=Result for spear=Beneficiary
4	draw	past	man	this			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=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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