Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 154

‘I wanted the Stranger-man to fetch Daddy’s spear, so I drawded it,’ said Taffy.

Who acts: I, Taffy · What happens: want, fetch, drawd, say · To what, where: Stranger man, spear, foot · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, Taffy), 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	_	3 wanted	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 said	ccomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
5	Stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Stranger	punct
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 fetch	mark
9	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 man	acl
10	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 spear	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 Daddy	case
12	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fetch	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 drawded	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 drawded	advmod
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 drawded	nsubj
16	drawded	drawd	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wanted	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 drawded	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 drawded	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 wanted	punct
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 said	nsubj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	want	past	I	the Stranger man	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot man=Theme
2	fetch	to-infinitive	I not said here	Daddy's spear	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Theme
3	drawd	past	I	foot	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	Taffy		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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