Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 51
‘And I’ll be quite as s’prised when I see it anywhere, as if you had jumped out from behind a tree and said ‘“Ah!”’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: s'pris, see, have, jump out, say · To what, where: I, bone, tree · 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 (I, you), 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’prised | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 s’prised | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 s’prised | nsubj |
| 4 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 s’prised | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 s’prised | aux:pass |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 s’prised | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 s’prised | advmod |
| 8 | s’prised | s'pris | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 jumped | parataxis |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 see | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 s’prised | advcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 see | obj |
| 13 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 see | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 jumped | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 jumped | mark |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 had | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 jumped | advcl |
| 19 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 jumped | compound:prt |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 tree | case |
| 22 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 24 tree | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 tree | det |
| 24 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 jumped | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 said | cc |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 jumped | conj |
| 27 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 ” | punct |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 ” | punct |
| 29 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 31 ” | discourse |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 29 Ah | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | s'pris | future · passive | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | present | I | bone | anywhere property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | have a condition, not said to happen | past | you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | jump out | past | a tree | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tree=Trajectory | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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