Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 27
‘That will be our little secret s’prise.
Who acts: That · What happens: be · To what, where: little secret s’prise
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 (That), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 s’prise | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 s’prise | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 s’prise | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 s’prise | cop |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 s’prise | nmod:poss |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 s’prise | amod |
| 7 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 s’prise | amod |
| 8 | s’prise | s'prise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 s’prise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | future | That | our little secret s’prise | 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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