Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 43

‘Now,’ said Taffy, ‘I want you to go to my Mummy, because your legs are longer than mine, and you won’t fall into the beaver-swamp, and ask for Daddy’s other spear--the one with the black handle that hangs over our fireplace.’

Who acts: Taffy, I, you, legs, black handle · What happens: say, want, go, be, not fall, ask · To what, where: you, Mummy, beaver swamp, fireplace · 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 (Taffy, I, you, legs), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 want	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 want	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 want	nsubj
10	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 want	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 go	mark
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 want	xcomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 Mummy	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 Mummy	nmod:poss
16	Mummy	Mummy	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 go	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 longer	punct
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 longer	mark
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 legs	nmod:poss
20	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 longer	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 longer	cop
22	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 go	parataxis
23	than	than	ADP	_	24 mine	case
24	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 longer	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fall	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 fall	cc
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 fall	nsubj
28	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 fall	aux
29	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 fall	advmod
30	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	parataxis
31	into	into	ADP	_	35 swamp	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 swamp	det
33	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 swamp	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 beaver	punct
35	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fall	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 ask	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 ask	cc
38	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 fall	conj
39	for	for	ADP	_	43 spear	case
40	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 spear	nmod:poss
41	’s	's	PART	_	40 Daddy	case
42	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 spear	amod
43	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 ask	obl
44	--	--	PUNCT	_	46 one	punct
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 one	det
46	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 spear	appos
47	with	with	ADP	_	50 handle	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 handle	det
49	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 handle	amod
50	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 one	nmod
51	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 hangs	nsubj
52	hangs	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 handle	acl:relcl
53	over	over	ADP	_	55 fireplace	case
54	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 fireplace	nmod:poss
55	fireplace	fireplace	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 hangs	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
57	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Taffy			now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want	present	I	you				tree rules
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		my Mummy			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mummy=Initial_Location
4	is	present	your legs				than mine; long property	tree rules
5	not fall	future	you				into the beaver swamp result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into swamp=Result
6	ask speech: ask	infinitive	you not said here				for Daddy's other spear	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	hang	present	the black handle		our fireplace			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over fireplace=Location

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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