Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 28

When I draw a carp-fish with his mouth open in the smoke at the back of our Cave--if Mummy doesn’t mind--it will remind you of that ah-noise.

Who acts: I, Mummy, fish · What happens: draw, not mind, remind · To what, where: carp fish, smoke, noise, you

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, Mummy, fish), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 draw	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 draw	nsubj
3	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fish	det
5	carp	carp	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fish	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 carp	punct
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 draw	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 mouth	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mouth	nmod:poss
10	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fish	nmod
11	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 draw	advcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 smoke	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 smoke	det
14	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 draw	obl
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 back	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 back	det
17	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 draw	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 Cave	case
19	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 Cave	nmod:poss
20	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 back	nmod
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 mind	punct
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 mind	mark
23	Mummy	Mummy	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 mind	nsubj
24	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 mind	aux
25	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 mind	advmod
26	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 draw	conj
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 remind	punct
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 remind	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 remind	aux
30	remind	remind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 mind	advcl
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 remind	iobj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 that	case
33	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 remind	obl
34	ah	ah	INTJ	_	36 noise	discourse
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 ah	punct
36	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 remind	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 draw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	present	I	a carp fish		the smoke	with man's mouth; at the back of our Cave	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fish=Theme in smoke=Destination
2	not mind a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	Mummy					vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	remind speech: other	future	fish	noise	you		of that	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient of that=Topic

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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