Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 72

‘Look,’ said Taffy, drawing very hard and rather scratchily, ‘now I’ve drawn you, and I’ve put the spear that Daddy wants into your hand, just to remind you that you’re to bring it.

Who acts: Taffy, I, Daddy, you · What happens: look, say, draw, have, put, want · To what, where: you, spear, hand · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Taffy, I, Daddy, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
2	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 drawing	punct
8	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	advcl
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 hard	advmod
10	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 drawing	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 scratchily	cc
12	rather	rather	ADV	_	13 scratchily	advmod
13	scratchily	scratchily	ADV	_	10 hard	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 drawn	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 drawn	punct
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 drawn	advmod
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 drawn	nsubj
18	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 drawn	aux
19	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 drawing	advcl
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 drawn	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ’ve	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 ’ve	cc
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 ’ve	nsubj
24	’ve	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 drawn	conj
25	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 ’ve	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 spear	det
27	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 put	obj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 wants	mark
29	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 wants	nsubj
30	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 put	advcl
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 hand	case
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 hand	nmod:poss
33	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wants	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 remind	punct
35	just	just	ADV	_	37 remind	advmod
36	to	to	PART	_	37 remind	mark
37	remind	remind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 put	advcl
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 remind	iobj
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 ’re	mark
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 ’re	nsubj
41	’re	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 remind	ccomp
42	to	to	PART	_	43 bring	mark
43	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 ’re	xcomp
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 bring	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	infinitive							vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	Taffy						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	draw	gerund	Taffy not said here					hard property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	draw	present · perfect	I	you			now		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	have	present	I						tree rules
6	put	infinitive	I not said here	the spear					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent spear=Goal
7	want	present	Daddy			your hand			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
8	remind speech: other	to-infinitive	I not said here		you				vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
9	does	present	you						tree rules
10	bring	to-infinitive	you not said here	hand					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=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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