Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 158

I couldn’t help it looking as if it stuck into Daddy’s head--there wasn’t room on the birch-bark; and those things that Mummy called bad people are my beavers.

Who acts: I, fish, room, Mummy, things · What happens: not help, look, stick, be, call · To what, where: fish, head, things, beavers · 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, fish, room, Mummy), 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	4 help	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 help	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 help	advmod
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 help	obj
6	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 help	advcl
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 stuck	mark
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 stuck	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stuck	nsubj
10	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 was	advcl
11	into	into	ADP	_	14 head	case
12	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 head	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 Daddy	case
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stuck	obl
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 stuck	punct
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 was	expl
17	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 looking	ccomp
18	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 room	advmod
19	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 was	nsubj
20	on	on	ADP	_	24 bark	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bark	det
22	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bark	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 birch	punct
24	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 room	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 beavers	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 beavers	cc
27	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	28 things	det
28	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 beavers	nsubj
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 called	obj
30	Mummy	Mummy	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 called	nsubj
31	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 things	acl:relcl
32	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 people	amod
33	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 called	obj
34	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 beavers	cop
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 beavers	nmod:poss
36	beavers	beaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 help	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not help	could	I	fish		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary
2	look	gerund	I not said here			tree rules
3	stick	past	fish		Daddy's head	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into head=Destination
4	be	past	room on the birch bark		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	call	past	Mummy	that things		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme people=Result
6	is a	present	that things	my beavers		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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