Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 235

If I’d only thought of that instead of drawing silly beaver pictures for the Stranger!’

Who acts: I · What happens: think, draw · To what, where: silly beaver pictures

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), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 thought	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 thought	nsubj
3	’d	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	aux
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 thought	advmod
5	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 that	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 thought	obl
8	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	10 drawing	mark
9	of	of	ADP	_	8 instead	fixed
10	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 thought	advcl
11	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 pictures	amod
12	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pictures	compound
13	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 drawing	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 Stranger	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Stranger	det
16	Stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drawing	obl
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · perfect	I					of that	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	draw	gerund	I not said here	silly beaver pictures				for the Stranger	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent picture=Result for stranger=Beneficiary

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/10/235/