Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 62

Well, now I’ll draw the other spear that he wants, the black-handled spear.

Who acts: I, spear · What happens: draw, want, handle · To what, where: other 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 (I, spear), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 draw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 draw	advmod
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 draw	nsubj
5	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 draw	aux
6	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 spear	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 spear	amod
9	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 draw	obj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 wants	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wants	nsubj
12	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 draw	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 spear	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 spear	det
15	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 handled	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 black	punct
17	handled	handle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 spear	amod
18	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wants	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 draw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	draw	future	I	the other spear	now	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Theme
2	want	present	spear			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	handle	participle				vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: 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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