Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 60
First I’ll draw Daddy fishing.
Who acts: I · What happens: draw · To what, where: Daddy fishing
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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 draw | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 draw | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 draw | aux |
| 4 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | Daddy | Daddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 fishing | compound |
| 6 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 draw | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 draw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | future | I | Daddy fishing | first property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fishing=Theme |
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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