Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 254

We’ll draw a shut mouth like this.’

Who acts: We · What happens: draw · To what, where: shut mouth

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 (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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 draw	nsubj
2	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 draw	aux
3	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mouth	det
5	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mouth	amod
6	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 draw	obj
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 this	case
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 mouth	nmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 draw	punct
10	’	'	SYM	_	3 draw	discourse

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	future	We	a shut mouth				like this	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=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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