Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 204

‘Well, I think I would have known it in a minute, but that raindrop made me quite sure.

Who acts: I, raindrop · What happens: think, know, make · To what, where: word, me · 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, raindrop), 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 think	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 think	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 think	nsubj
5	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 known	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 known	aux
8	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 known	aux
9	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 think	ccomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 known	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 minute	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 minute	det
13	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 known	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 made	cc
16	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 raindrop	det
17	raindrop	raindrop	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	nsubj
18	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 known	conj
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 made	obj
20	quite	quite	ADV	_	21 sure	advmod
21	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 made	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	know	would · perfect	I	word	minute		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	make	past	that raindrop	me		sure property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product

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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