Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 15

‘It will take me half the day to mend this.’

Who acts: It · What happens: take, mend · To what, where: me, this

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the First Letter Was Written. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It), 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	_	4 take	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 take	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 take	obj
6	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	8 day	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obl:unmarked
9	to	to	PART	_	10 mend	mark
10	mend	mend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	advcl
11	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 mend	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct
13	’	'	SYM	_	4 take	discourse

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	future	It		me		day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination
2	mend	to-infinitive		this					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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