Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 75

I haven’t put in all the beavers, because I can’t draw beavers, but I’ve drawn their heads, and that’s all you’ll see of them when you cross the swamp.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: not put in, not draw, draw, see, cross · To what, where: beavers, heads, 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 (I, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2781:495): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 put	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 put	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 put	advmod
4	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	4 put	compound:prt
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 beavers	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 beavers	det
8	beavers	beaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 put	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 draw	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 draw	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 draw	nsubj
12	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 draw	aux
13	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 draw	advmod
14	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 put	advcl
15	beavers	beaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 draw	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 drawn	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 drawn	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 drawn	nsubj
19	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 drawn	aux
20	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 put	conj
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 heads	nmod:poss
22	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 drawn	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 all	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 all	cc
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 all	nsubj
26	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 all	cop
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 put	conj
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 see	nsubj
29	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 see	aux
30	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 all	acl:relcl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 see	obl
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 cross	advmod
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 cross	nsubj
35	cross	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 see	advcl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 swamp	det
37	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 cross	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not put in	present · perfect	I		all beavers		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent beaver=Goal
2	not draw	can	I	beavers			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beaver=Theme
3	draw	present · perfect	I	beavers's heads			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
4	see	future	you			of beavers = beaver	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	cross	present	you	the swamp			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swamp=Patient

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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