Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 61

It isn’t very like him; but Mummy will know, because I’ve drawn his spear all broken.

Who acts: fishing, Mummy, I · What happens: not be, know, draw, break · To what, where: spear

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 (fishing, Mummy, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 him	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 him	cop
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 him	advmod
4	very	very	ADV	_	6 him	advmod
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 know	cc
9	Mummy	mummy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 know	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 know	aux
11	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 him	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 drawn	punct
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 drawn	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 drawn	nsubj
15	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 drawn	aux
16	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 know	ccomp
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 spear	nmod:poss
18	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drawn	obj
19	all	all	ADV	_	20 broken	advmod
20	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 drawn	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 him	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	present	fishing		like man	tree rules
2	know	future	Mummy			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	draw	present · perfect	I	Mummy's spear		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Theme
4	break	participle	I not said here		all property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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