Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 291

That was all very well to draw once or twice; but when it came to drawing it six or seven times, Taffy and Tegumai drew it scratchier and scratchier, till at last the T-sound was only a thin long Tegumai with his arms out to hold Taffy and Teshumai.

Who acts: sort, Taffy, T sound · What happens: be, come, draw, hold · To what, where: sort, thin long Tegumai, Taffy

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 (sort, Taffy, T sound), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 draw	obl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 draw	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	5 well	advmod
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 well	advmod
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 draw	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 draw	mark
7	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 draw	advmod
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 twice	cc
10	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 once	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 drew	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 drew	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 came	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 drew	advcl
16	to	to	SCONJ	_	17 drawing	mark
17	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 came	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 drawing	obj
19	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 times	nummod
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 seven	cc
21	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 six	conj
22	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 drawing	obl:unmarked
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
24	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 drew	nsubj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 Tegumai	cc
26	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Taffy	conj
27	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 draw	parataxis
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 drew	obj
29	scratchier	scratchy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 drew	xcomp
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 scratchier	cc
31	scratchier	scratchy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 scratchier	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 last	punct
33	till	till	ADP	_	35 last	case
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 last	case
35	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 drew	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 sound	det
37	T	t	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 sound	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 T	punct
39	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 Tegumai	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 Tegumai	cop
41	only	only	ADV	_	45 Tegumai	advmod
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 Tegumai	det
43	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 Tegumai	amod
44	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 Tegumai	amod
45	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 last	parataxis
46	with	with	ADP	_	48 arms	case
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 arms	nmod:poss
48	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 last	obl
49	out	out	ADV	_	35 last	advmod
50	to	to	PART	_	51 hold	mark
51	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 last	advcl
52	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 hold	obj
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 Teshumai	cc
54	Teshumai	Teshumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 Taffy	conj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 draw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				That obl; draw, once, well property	tree rules
2	come	past	sort				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	draw	gerund	sort not said here	sort	time		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	draw	past	Taffy and Tegumai	sort		scratchy property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	is a	past	the T sound	a thin long Tegumai			tree rules
6	hold	to-infinitive	Taffy and Tegumai not said here	Taffy and Teshumai			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taffy=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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