Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 171

But a time will come, O Babe of Tegumai, when we shall make letters--all twenty-six of ‘em,--and when we shall be able to read as well as to write, and then we shall always say exactly what we mean without any mistakes.

Who acts: time, we · What happens: come, make, be, read, write, say · To what, where: letters · 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 (time, we), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 come	cc
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Babe	punct
7	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	8 Babe	case
8	Babe	Babe	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Tegumai	case
10	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Babe	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 make	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 make	advmod
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 make	nsubj
14	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 make	aux
15	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	parataxis
16	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 make	obj
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 six	punct
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 six	det:predet
19	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 six	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 twenty	punct
21	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 letters	appos
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 em	case
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 em	punct
24	em	em	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 six	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 em	punct
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 able	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 able	cc
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 able	advmod
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 able	nsubj
30	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 able	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 able	cop
32	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 make	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 read	mark
34	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 able	xcomp
35	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	34 read	advmod
36	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 as	fixed
37	as	as	ADP	_	35 as	fixed
38	to	to	PART	_	39 write	mark
39	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 read	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 say	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 say	cc
42	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	46 say	advmod
43	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 say	nsubj
44	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 say	aux
45	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	46 say	advmod
46	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	parataxis
47	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	48 what	advmod
48	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	50 mean	obj
49	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 mean	nsubj
50	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 say	ccomp
51	without	without	ADP	_	53 mistakes	case
52	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	53 mistakes	det
53	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 mean	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	future	a time			of Babe of Tegumai	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of babe=Initial_Location
2	make	shall	we	letters			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Product
3	is	shall	we			able property	tree rules
4	read	to-infinitive	we not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	write	to-infinitive	we not said here				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	say speech: assert	shall	we		then	always property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	mean	present	we			without any mistakes	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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