Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 58

So he gave Taffy the shark’s tooth, and she lay down flat on her tummy with her legs in the air, like some people on the drawing-room floor when they want to draw pictures, and she said, ‘Now I’ll draw you some beautiful pictures!

Who acts: man, Taffy, teeth, I · What happens: give, lie down, want, draw, say · To what, where: tooth, Taffy, tummy, pictures, you · 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 (man, Taffy, teeth, 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 gave	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gave	iobj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shark	det
6	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tooth	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 shark	case
8	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lay	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lay	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lay	nsubj
12	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 lay	advmod
14	flat	flat	ADV	_	12 lay	advmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 tummy	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 tummy	nmod:poss
17	tummy	tummy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lay	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 legs	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 legs	nmod:poss
20	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lay	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 air	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 air	det
23	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lay	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 people	punct
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 people	case
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 people	det
27	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lay	obl
28	on	on	ADP	_	33 floor	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 floor	det
30	drawing	drawing	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 room	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 drawing	punct
32	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 floor	compound
33	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 people	nmod
34	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	36 want	advmod
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 want	nsubj
36	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 lay	advcl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 draw	mark
38	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 want	xcomp
39	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 draw	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 said	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 said	cc
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 said	nsubj
43	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	parataxis
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 said	punct
45	‘	'	PUNCT	_	49 draw	punct
46	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	49 draw	advmod
47	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 draw	nsubj
48	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 draw	aux
49	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 said	conj
50	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	49 draw	obj
51	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	53 pictures	det
52	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 pictures	amod
53	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 draw	obj
54	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	man	the shark's tooth	Taffy				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent taffy=Recipient tooth=Theme
2	lie down	past	Taffy			Taffy's tummy		with Taffy's legs; in the air; like some people on the room floor; down, flat property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tummy=Location
3	want	present	teeth = tooth						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	draw not said to happen	to-infinitive	teeth = tooth not said here	pictures					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	Taffy						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	draw	future	I		you		now		vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary picture=Result

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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