Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 78
It isn’t as high as the hills really, but I can’t draw things very small.
Who acts: Cave, I · What happens: not be, not draw · To what, where: things
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, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 high | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 high | cop |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 high | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 high | advmod |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 hills | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hills | det |
| 8 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 high | obl |
| 9 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 high | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 draw | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 draw | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 draw | nsubj |
| 13 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 draw | aux |
| 14 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 draw | advmod |
| 15 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 high | conj |
| 16 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 draw | obj |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 small | advmod |
| 18 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 draw | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 high | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | Cave | as the hills; high property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not draw | can | I | things | small property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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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