Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 52

Of course I can’t write, but I can draw pictures if I’ve anything sharp to scratch with.

Who acts: I · What happens: not write, draw, have, scratch · To what, where: pictures, anything

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), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	2 course	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 write	obl
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 write	nsubj
4	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 write	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 write	advmod
6	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 draw	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 draw	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 draw	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 draw	aux
11	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 write	conj
12	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 draw	obj
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 ’ve	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 ’ve	nsubj
15	’ve	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 draw	advcl
16	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 ’ve	obj
17	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 anything	amod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 scratch	mark
19	scratch	scratch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 sharp	advcl
20	with	with	ADP	_	19 scratch	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 write	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not write	can	I		of course	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	draw	can	I	pictures		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme
3	have a condition, not said to happen	present	I	anything		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient
4	scratch	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: 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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