Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 51

I thought you would do it by charms and incantations, but this is a practical joke.’

Who acts: I, you, this · What happens: think, do, be · To what, where: goodness, practical joke · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, this), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 do	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 do	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 charms	case
8	charms	charm	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 incantations	cc
10	incantations	incantation	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 charms	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 joke	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 joke	cc
13	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 joke	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 joke	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 joke	det
16	practical	practical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 joke	amod
17	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 joke	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 joke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	I			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	do	would	you	goodness	by charms and incantations	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	is a	present	this	a practical joke		tree rules

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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