Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 73
Will it do if I just draw the split part of the tail, and the sticky-down line for where it joins?’
Who acts: tail, I · What happens: do, draw, join · To what, where: split part
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 (tail, 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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 do | aux |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 draw | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 draw | nsubj |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 draw | advmod |
| 7 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 do | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 part | det |
| 9 | split | split | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 part | amod |
| 10 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 draw | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 tail | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tail | det |
| 13 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 part | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 line | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 line | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 line | det |
| 17 | sticky | sticky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 down | amod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 sticky | punct |
| 19 | down | down | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 line | amod |
| 20 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 do | conj |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 joins | mark |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 joins | advmod |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 joins | nsubj |
| 24 | joins | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 line | advcl |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | future | tail | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | draw a condition, not said to happen | present | I | the split part of the tail | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | ||||
| 3 | join | present | tail | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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