Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 41
‘You needn’t draw anything of him except just the opening of his mouth and the feeler across.
Who acts: You · What happens: not draw · To what, where: anything
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 (You), 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 | _ | 5 draw | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 draw | nsubj |
| 3 | need | need | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 draw | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 draw | advmod |
| 5 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 draw | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 anything | nmod |
| 9 | except | except | ADP | _ | 12 opening | case |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 opening | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 opening | det |
| 12 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 draw | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 mouth | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 opening | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 feeler | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 feeler | det |
| 18 | feeler | feeler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 opening | conj |
| 19 | across | across | ADV | _ | 5 draw | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 draw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not draw | present | You | anything | except the opening of rest's mouth and the feeler; across property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=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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