Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 180

‘If we drew that in a hurry we might mistake it for the round egg itself.

Who acts: we · What happens: draw, mistake · To what, where: hurry

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), 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	_	4 drew	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 drew	mark
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 drew	nsubj
4	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 mistake	mark
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 hurry	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hurry	det
8	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mistake	obl
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 mistake	nsubj
10	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 mistake	aux
11	mistake	mistake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 drew	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 mistake	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 egg	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 egg	det
15	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 egg	amod
16	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mistake	obl
17	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	16 egg	nmod:unmarked
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past	we						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	mistake	might	we	hurry		a hurry		for the round egg hurry	tree rules

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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