Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 274

And very incitedly he drew them all without stopping, on a big new bit of birch-bark.

Who acts: S’pose · What happens: draw, stop · To what, where: stick, big new bit

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 (S’pose), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 drew	cc
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 incitedly	advmod
3	incitedly	incitedly	ADV	_	5 drew	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 drew	nsubj
5	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 drew	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 them	nmod:unmarked
8	without	without	SCONJ	_	9 stopping	mark
9	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 drew	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bit	punct
11	on	on	ADP	_	15 bit	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bit	det
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bit	amod
14	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bit	amod
15	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stopping	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 bark	case
17	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bark	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 birch	punct
19	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bit	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past	S’pose = s'pose	stick				incitedly property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	stop	gerund	S’pose = s'pose not said here			a big new bit of birch bark			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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