Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 64

That’s the spear I want you to fetch; so I’ll draw a picture of me myself ‘splaining to you.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: want, fetch, draw, splain · To what, where: you, picture

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, you), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 ’s	nsubj
2	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spear	det
4	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ’s	obj
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 want	nsubj
6	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 spear	acl:relcl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 want	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 fetch	mark
9	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 want	xcomp
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 draw	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 draw	advmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 draw	nsubj
13	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 draw	aux
14	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ’s	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 picture	det
16	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 draw	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 picture	nmod
19	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	14 draw	obl:unmarked
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 splaining	punct
21	splaining	splain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 draw	advcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 you	case
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 splaining	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ’s	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	want	present	I	you			tree rules
2	fetch not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	draw	future	I	a picture of me		myself obl:unmarked	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme
4	splain	gerund	I not said here		you		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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