Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 74

You go along till you come to two trees (those are trees), and then you go over a hill (that’s a hill), and then you come into a beaver-swamp all full of beavers.

Who acts: You, that · What happens: go along, come, be, go · To what, where: two trees, trees, hill, beaver swamp

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 (You, that), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 go	nsubj
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	along	along	ADV	_	2 go	advmod
4	till	till	SCONJ	_	6 come	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 come	nsubj
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 go	advcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 trees	case
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 trees	nummod
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 come	obl
10	(	(	PUNCT	_	13 trees	punct
11	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 trees	det
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 trees	cop
13	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 trees	appos
14	)	)	PUNCT	_	13 trees	punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 go	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 go	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 go	advmod
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 go	nsubj
19	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 go	conj
20	over	over	ADP	_	22 hill	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 hill	det
22	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 go	obl
23	(	(	PUNCT	_	27 hill	punct
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 hill	nsubj
25	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 hill	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 hill	det
27	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hill	appos
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	27 hill	punct
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 come	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 come	cc
31	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 come	advmod
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 come	nsubj
33	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 go	parataxis
34	into	into	ADP	_	38 swamp	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 swamp	det
36	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 swamp	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 beaver	punct
38	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 come	obl
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 full	det
40	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 swamp	amod
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 beavers	case
42	beavers	beaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 full	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go along	present	You				along property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	present	you		two trees			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location
3	is a	present		that trees				tree rules
4	go	present	you		a hill	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over hill=Initial_Location
5	is a	present	that	a hill				tree rules
6	come	present	you		a beaver swamp	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into swamp=Initial_Location

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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