Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 59

I’ve made him different from all other animals; but what may I have for my tea?’

Who acts: I · What happens: have, make · To what, where: Dingo

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), 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	3 made	nsubj
2	’ve	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	obj
5	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 made	xcomp
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 animals	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 animals	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 animals	amod
9	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 different	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 have	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 have	obj
13	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 have	aux
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 have	nsubj
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	parataxis
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 tea	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 tea	nmod:poss
18	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	I not said here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	make	past	I	Dingo	different property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product
3	have	may	I		for my tea	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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