Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 83

Now, in case you forget, I’ve drawn the spear that Daddy wants outside our Cave.

Who acts: you, I, Daddy · What happens: forget, draw, want · To what, where: spear

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, I, Daddy), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 drawn	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	6 forget	mark
4	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 in	fixed
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 forget	nsubj
6	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 drawn	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 forget	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 drawn	nsubj
9	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 drawn	aux
10	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 spear	det
12	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drawn	obj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 wants	mark
14	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 wants	nsubj
15	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 drawn	advcl
16	outside	outside	ADP	_	18 Cave	case
17	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 Cave	nmod:poss
18	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wants	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 drawn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	forget	present	you				tree rules
2	draw	present · perfect	I	the spear	now		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Theme
3	want	present	Daddy			outside our Cave	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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