Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 159

I drawded them to show him the way through the swamp; and I drawded Mummy at the mouth of the Cave looking pleased because he is a nice Stranger-man, and I think you are just the stupidest people in the world,’ said Taffy.

Who acts: I, Cave, Mummy, you, Taffy · What happens: drawd, show, look, be, think, say · To what, where: people, way, Mummy, swamp, mouth, nice Stranger man · 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, Cave, Mummy, you), 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	2 drawded	nsubj
2	drawded	drawd	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drawded	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 show	mark
5	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 drawded	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 show	iobj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 show	obj
9	through	through	ADP	_	11 swamp	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 swamp	det
11	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 show	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 drawded	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 drawded	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 drawded	nsubj
15	drawded	drawd	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drawded	conj
16	Mummy	Mummy	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 drawded	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 mouth	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mouth	det
19	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 drawded	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 Cave	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Cave	det
22	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mouth	nmod
23	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 Cave	acl
24	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 looking	xcomp
25	because	because	SCONJ	_	32 man	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 man	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 man	cop
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 man	det
29	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 man	amod
30	Stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 man	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 Stranger	punct
32	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 drawded	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 think	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 think	cc
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 think	nsubj
36	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 drawded	parataxis
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 people	nsubj
38	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 people	cop
39	just	just	ADV	_	42 people	advmod
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 people	det
41	stupidest	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Sup	42 people	amod
42	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 think	ccomp
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 world	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 world	det
45	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 people	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 said	punct
47	’	'	PUNCT	_	48 said	punct
48	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 people	parataxis
49	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 said	nsubj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drawded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	drawd	past	I	people				tree rules
2	show	to-infinitive	I not said here	the way	Mummy	the swamp		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient way=Topic
3	drawd	past	I	Mummy		the mouth of the Cave		tree rules
4	look	gerund	the Cave not said here				pleased property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	is a	present	Mummy	a nice Stranger man				tree rules
6	think speech: other	present	I					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a	present	you	the stupidest people		the world		tree rules
8	say speech: assert	past	Taffy					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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