Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 65

My hair doesn’t stand up like I’ve drawn, but it’s easier to draw that way.

Who acts: hair, I · What happens: not stand up, draw, be · To what, where: way

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 (hair, 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hair	nmod:poss
2	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stand	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stand	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 stand	advmod
5	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 stand	compound:prt
7	like	like	SCONJ	_	10 drawn	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 drawn	nsubj
9	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 drawn	aux
10	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 stand	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 easier	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 easier	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 easier	expl
14	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 easier	cop
15	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 stand	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 draw	mark
17	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 easier	xcomp
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 way	det
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 draw	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not stand up	present · do-support	My hair			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	draw	present · perfect	I			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	My hair not said here		easy property	tree rules
4	draw	to-infinitive	My hair not said here	that way		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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