Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 220

I don’t see how we can draw them.’

Who acts: I, we · What happens: not see, draw · To what, where: things · 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, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 draw	advmod
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 draw	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 draw	aux
8	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 see	ccomp
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 draw	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	present · do-support	I						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	draw	can	we	things = thing					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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