Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 240
‘I could have drawn shi quite easily,’ Taffy went on.
Who acts: I, Taffy · What happens: draw, go on · To what, where: shi
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, Taffy), 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 drawn | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 drawn | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 drawn | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 drawn | aux |
| 5 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | shi | shi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drawn | obj |
| 7 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 easily | advmod |
| 8 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 5 drawn | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 drawn | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 drawn | punct |
| 11 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 drawn | parataxis |
| 13 | on | on | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 drawn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | could · perfect | I | shi | easily property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shi=Theme | |||
| 2 | go on | past | Taffy | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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