Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 178

Most of them prefer to draw pictures and play about with their Daddies--just like Taffy.

Who acts: Most · What happens: prefer, draw, play about · To what, where: pictures

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 (Most), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 prefer	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Most	nmod
4	prefer	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 draw	mark
6	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 prefer	xcomp
7	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 draw	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 play	cc
9	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 prefer	conj
10	about	about	ADV	_	9 play	advmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 Daddies	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 Daddies	nmod:poss
13	Daddies	daddy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 play	obl
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 Taffy	punct
15	just	just	ADV	_	17 Taffy	advmod
16	like	like	ADP	_	17 Taffy	case
17	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Daddies	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 prefer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	prefer	present	Most of girls			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	draw not said to happen	to-infinitive	Most of girls not said here	pictures		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme
3	play about	present	Most of girls not said here		with girls's Daddies like Taffy; about property	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with daddy=Theme

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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