Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 69

‘You couldn’t have done that with a mear-smear nose.

Who acts: You · What happens: not do · To what, where: that

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant’s Child. 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 done	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 done	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 done	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 done	advmod
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 done	aux
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 done	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	13 nose	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 nose	det
10	mear	mear	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 smear	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 mear	punct
12	smear	smear	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 nose	compound
13	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 done	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	could · perfect	You	that				with a smear nose	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

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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