Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 42

Then we’ll know he’s a carp-fish, ‘cause the perches and trouts haven’t got feelers.

Who acts: we, perches · What happens: know, cause, not get · To what, where: feelers

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 (we, perches), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 know	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
3	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ’s	nsubj
6	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fish	det
8	carp	carp	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fish	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 carp	punct
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ’s	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cause	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 cause	punct
13	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 know	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 perches	det
15	perches	perch	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 got	nsubj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 trouts	cc
17	trouts	trout	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 perches	conj
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 got	aux
19	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 got	advmod
20	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 cause	ccomp
21	feelers	feeler	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 got	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	know	future	we		then	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	cause	infinitive				tree rules
3	not get	present · perfect	the perches and trouts	feelers		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer feeler=Stimulus

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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