Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 271

‘I’ll draw ‘em all in a string like fish.’

Who acts: I · What happens: draw · To what, where: em, string

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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 draw	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 draw	nsubj
3	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 draw	aux
4	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 em	punct
6	em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 draw	obl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 em	nmod:unmarked
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 string	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 string	det
10	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 draw	obl
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 fish	case
12	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 string	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 draw	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 draw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	future	I	em = they		a string like fish			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in string=Destination

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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