Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 83
‘You can’t always find eggs or stones.
Who acts: You · What happens: not find · To what, where: eggs
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 | _ | 6 find | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 find | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 find | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 find | advmod |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 find | advmod |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 find | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 stones | cc |
| 9 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 eggs | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not find | can | You | eggs or stones | always property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=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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