Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 265

‘But we don’t want all those teeth: only put two.’

Who acts: we · What happens: not want, put · To what, where: teeth, two

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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 want	cc
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 want	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 want	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 want	advmod
6	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 teeth	det:predet
8	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 teeth	det
9	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 want	obj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 put	punct
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 put	advmod
12	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 want	conj
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 put	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want	present · do-support	we	all teeth					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot tooth=Theme
2	put	infinitive	we not said here	two					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent two=Goal

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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