Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 104

‘A little more practice will make you a regular whale.

Who acts: little more practice · What happens: make · To what, where: you

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Beginning of the Armadillos. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little more practice), 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	_	7 make	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 practice	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 practice	amod
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 practice	amod
5	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 make	aux
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 make	obj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 whale	det
10	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 whale	amod
11	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	xcomp
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	future	a little more practice	you					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product

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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