Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 33

‘I can’t draw all of a carp-fish, but I can draw something that means a carp-fish’s mouth.

Who acts: I · What happens: not draw, draw, mean · To what, where: all, something, mouth

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.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2781:608): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 draw	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 draw	nsubj
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 draw	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 draw	advmod
5	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 draw	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 fish	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fish	det
9	carp	carp	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fish	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 carp	punct
11	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 all	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 draw	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 draw	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 draw	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 draw	aux
16	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 draw	conj
17	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 draw	obj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 means	nsubj
19	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 something	acl:relcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 fish	det
21	carp	carp	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fish	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 carp	punct
23	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 mouth	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 fish	case
25	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 means	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 draw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not draw	can	I	all	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme
2	draw	can	I	something	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
3	mean	present		a carp fish's mouth	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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