Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 178

‘Then s’pose we draw a thin round egg, and pretend it’s a frog that hasn’t eaten anything for years.’

Who acts: you, sound, frog · What happens: s'pose, draw, pretend, be, not eat · To what, where: we, thin round egg, frog, anything

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, sound, frog), 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	_	3 s’pose	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 s’pose	advmod
3	s’pose	s'pose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 s’pose	obj
5	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 s’pose	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 egg	det
7	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 egg	amod
8	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 egg	amod
9	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 draw	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pretend	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 pretend	cc
12	pretend	pretend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 s’pose	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 frog	nsubj
14	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 frog	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 frog	det
16	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pretend	xcomp
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 eaten	nsubj
18	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 eaten	aux
19	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 eaten	advmod
20	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 frog	acl:relcl
21	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 eaten	obj
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 years	case
23	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 eaten	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 s’pose	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 s’pose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	s'pose	imperative	you not said here	we	then	tree rules
2	draw	infinitive	you not said here	a thin round egg		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme
3	pretend	infinitive	you not said here			tree rules
4	is a	present	sound	a frog		tree rules
5	not eat	present · perfect	a frog	anything	year	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient

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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