Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 53

Please lend me the shark’s tooth off your necklace.’

Who acts: you · What happens: lend off · To what, where: tooth, me

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	Please	please	INTJ	_	2 lend	discourse
2	lend	lend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 lend	iobj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shark	det
5	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tooth	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 shark	case
7	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lend	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	2 lend	compound:prt
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 necklace	nmod:poss
10	necklace	necklace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lend	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lend	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 lend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lend off	imperative	you not said here	the shark's tooth	me				tree rules

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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