Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 165

‘Even Mummy couldn’t mistake that for me being killed.’

Who acts: Mummy · What happens: not mistake, kill · To what, where: that, 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 (Mummy), 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	_	6 mistake	punct
2	Even	even	ADV	_	3 Mummy	advmod
3	Mummy	Mummy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mistake	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 mistake	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 mistake	advmod
6	mistake	mistake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 mistake	obj
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 killed	mark
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 killed	nsubj:pass
10	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 killed	aux:pass
11	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 mistake	advcl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 mistake	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 mistake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not mistake	could	Mummy	that					tree rules
2	kill	gerund · passive		me					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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