Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 40
‘But I can’t draw, Daddy.’
Who acts: I · What happens: not draw · To what, where: Daddy
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.
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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 draw | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 draw | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 draw | nsubj |
| 4 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 draw | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 draw | advmod |
| 6 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Daddy | punct |
| 8 | Daddy | Daddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 draw | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 draw | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 draw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not draw | can | I | Daddy | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daddy=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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