Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 95
Now this is the picture that Taffy had drawn for him!
Who acts: this, Taffy · What happens: be, draw · To what, where: picture
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 (this, Taffy), 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 | 5 picture | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 picture | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 picture | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 picture | det |
| 5 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 drawn | mark |
| 7 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 drawn | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 drawn | aux |
| 9 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 picture | acl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 drawn | obl |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 picture | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this | the picture | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | draw | past · perfect | Taffy | the picture not said here | for Chief | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent picture=Result for he=Beneficiary |
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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