Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 92

Therefore he turned to me his back, and let the wise and wonderful child draw the terrible picture showing me his difficulties.

Who acts: Chief, wise child, terrible picture · What happens: turn, let, draw, show · To what, where: back, me, wise child, terrible picture, difficulties

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 (Chief, wise child, terrible picture), 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	Therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 turned	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 turned	obl
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 back	nmod:poss
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 let	cc
10	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 turned	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 child	det
12	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 child	amod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wonderful	cc
14	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 wise	conj
15	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 let	obj
16	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 let	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 picture	det
18	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 picture	amod
19	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 draw	obj
20	showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 picture	acl
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 showing	iobj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 difficulties	nmod:poss
23	difficulties	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 showing	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	turn	past	Chief	Chief's back	me	therefore property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent back=Theme to i=Result
2	let	infinitive	Chief not said here	the wise child			tree rules
3	draw	infinitive	the wise child not said here	the terrible picture			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme
4	show	gerund	the terrible picture not said here	Chief's difficulties	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient difficulty=Topic

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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