Just so stories, How the Camel Got His Hump, sentence 51

The cure for this ill is not to sit still, Or frowst with a book by the fire; But to take a large hoe and a shovel also, And dig till you gently perspire;

Who acts: cure · What happens: not be, frowst, take, dig, perspire · To what, where: large hoe

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Camel Got His Hump. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cure), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cure	det
2	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sit	nsubj
3	for	for	SCONJ	_	5 ill	mark
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 ill	nsubj
5	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cure	acl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sit	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 sit	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 sit	mark
9	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	still	still	ADV	_	9 sit	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 frowst	punct
12	Or	or	CCONJ	_	13 frowst	cc
13	frowst	frowst	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sit	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 book	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 book	det
16	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 frowst	obl
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 fire	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fire	det
19	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 frowst	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 take	punct
21	But	but	CCONJ	_	23 take	cc
22	to	to	PART	_	23 take	mark
23	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sit	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 hoe	det
25	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hoe	amod
26	hoe	hoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 take	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 shovel	cc
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 shovel	det
29	shovel	shovel	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hoe	conj
30	also	also	ADV	_	23 take	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 dig	punct
32	And	and	CCONJ	_	33 dig	cc
33	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 take	conj
34	till	till	ADP	_	35 you	case
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 dig	obl
36	gently	gently	ADV	_	33 dig	advmod
37	perspire	perspire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 dig	advcl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	the cure		still	sit property	tree rules
2	frowst	infinitive	the cure not said here			with a book; by the fire	tree rules
3	take	to-infinitive	the cure not said here	a large hoe and a shovel			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hoe=Theme
4	dig	infinitive	the cure not said here		till you	gently property	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	perspire	present	the cure not said here				vn exhale-40.1.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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