Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 35

Well, here’s a pretence carp-fish (we can play that the rest of him is drawn).

Who acts: pretence carp fish, we · What happens: be, play, draw · To what, where: rest

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 (pretence carp fish, we), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	3 here	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
4	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 here	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fish	det
6	pretence	pretence	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fish	compound
7	carp	carp	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fish	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 carp	punct
9	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 here	nsubj
10	(	(	PUNCT	_	13 play	punct
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 play	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 play	aux
13	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 fish	parataxis
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 drawn	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rest	det
16	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 drawn	nsubj:pass
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 rest	nmod
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 drawn	aux:pass
20	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 play	advcl
21	)	)	PUNCT	_	13 play	punct
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	a pretence carp fish		here property	tree rules
2	play	can	we			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	draw	present · passive		the rest of man		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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