Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 60

Let’s draw another bit of the carp-fish and join ‘em,’ said her Daddy.

Who acts: you, ’s · What happens: let, draw, join, say · To what, where: ’s, bit, em, Daddy · Speech: someone speaks here

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, ’s), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	’s	we	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 bit	det
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 draw	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 fish	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def 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	5 bit	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 join	cc
12	join	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 draw	conj
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 em	punct
14	em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 join	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	parataxis
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 Daddy	nmod:poss
19	Daddy	daddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	’s	tree rules
2	draw	infinitive	’s not said here	another bit of the carp fish	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme
3	join	present	’s not said here	em = they	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past		Ya's Daddy	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent daddy=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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