Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 210
Wouldn’t Mummy be surprised?’
What happens: not surprise · To what, where: Mummy
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: 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 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 surprised | aux |
| 2 | n’t | n't | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 surprised | aux |
| 3 | Mummy | Mummy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 surprised | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 surprised | aux:pass |
| 5 | surprised | surprise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 surprised | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not surprise | would · passive | Mummy | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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