Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 233

‘To-las means that there’s no water in the tank for Mummy to cook with--just when I’m going hunting, too.’

Who acts: las, I · What happens: mean, cook, be, go · To what, where: hunting

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 (las, I), 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 las	punct
2	To	to	ADP	_	4 las	case
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 To	punct
4	las	la	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 means	nsubj
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 ’s	mark
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 ’s	expl
8	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 means	ccomp
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 water	det
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ’s	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 tank	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tank	det
13	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ’s	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 Mummy	case
15	Mummy	Mummy	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 tank	nmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 cook	mark
17	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 ’s	advcl
18	with	with	ADP	_	17 cook	obl
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 ’m	punct
20	just	just	ADV	_	23 ’m	advmod
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 ’m	advmod
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 ’m	nsubj
23	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 means	parataxis
24	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 ’m	xcomp
25	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 going	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 too	punct
27	too	too	ADV	_	23 ’m	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present	las		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	cook	to-infinitive	las not said here		vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	be	present	I		tree rules
4	go	gerund	I not said here	hunting	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hunting=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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