Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 12
Then she said, ‘Daddy, I’ve thinked of a secret surprise.
Who acts: Daddy, I · What happens: say, have, thinke · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Alphabet Was Made. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Daddy, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Daddy | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ‘ | ADP | _ | 6 Daddy | case |
| 6 | Daddy | Daddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | vocative |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ’ve | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 ’ve | nsubj |
| 9 | ’ve | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 10 | thinked | thinke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 ’ve | xcomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 surprise | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 surprise | det |
| 13 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 surprise | amod |
| 14 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thinked | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Daddy | then | Daddy vocative | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | have | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | thinke | participle | I not said here | of a secret surprise | 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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