Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 63

It looks as if it was sticking in Daddy’s back, but that’s because the shark’s tooth slipped and this piece of bark isn’t big enough.

Who acts: It, fishing, tooth, piece · What happens: look, stick, slip, not be

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 (It, fishing, tooth, piece), 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	2 looks	nsubj
2	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 sticking	mark
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 sticking	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sticking	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sticking	aux
7	sticking	stick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 looks	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Daddy	case
9	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 ’s	obl
10	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sticking	ccomp
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 ’s	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ’s	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 ’s	cc
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 ’s	nsubj
15	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 looks	conj
16	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 slipped	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 shark	det
18	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tooth	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 shark	case
20	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 slipped	nsubj
21	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ’s	advcl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 big	cc
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 piece	det
24	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 big	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 bark	case
26	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 piece	nmod
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 big	cop
28	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 big	advmod
29	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 slipped	conj
30	enough	enough	ADV	_	29 big	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	look	present	It		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	stick	past · progressive	fishing		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	slip	past	the shark's tooth		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	not is	present	this piece of bark	big, enough property	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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