Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 19

‘Besides, you might fall into the beaver-swamp and be drowned.

Who acts: you · What happens: fall, drown · To what, where: beaver swamp

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 (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 fall	punct
2	Besides	besides	INTJ	_	6 fall	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Besides	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 fall	nsubj
5	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fall	aux
6	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	11 swamp	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 swamp	det
9	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 swamp	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 beaver	punct
11	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fall	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 drowned	cc
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 drowned	aux:pass
14	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 fall	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	might	you					into the beaver swamp result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into swamp=Result
2	drown	infinitive · passive	you not said here						vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»

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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