Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 77

Then our Cave is just beyond the beaver-swamp.

Who acts: Cave · What happens: be

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 (Cave), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 swamp	advmod
2	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 Cave	nmod:poss
3	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 swamp	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 swamp	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	10 swamp	advmod
6	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	10 swamp	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 swamp	det
8	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 swamp	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 beaver	punct
10	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 swamp	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	our Cave				then	beyond the beaver swamp	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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