Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 161
You’ll know what my riddle means When you’ve eaten mangosteens.
Who acts: You, riddle, my · What happens: know, mean, have, eat, riddle · To what, where: eaten mangosteens · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Crab That Played With the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, riddle, my), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 2 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | aux |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 means | obj |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 riddle | nmod:poss |
| 6 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | nsubj |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | ccomp |
| 8 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 ’ve | advmod |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 ’ve | nsubj |
| 10 | ’ve | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | ccomp |
| 11 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 mangosteens | amod |
| 12 | mangosteens | mangosteen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ’ve | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | future | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | my riddle | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | present | you | eaten mangosteens | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mangosteen=Patient | ||||
| 4 | eat | participle | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | riddle | my | nom riddle «communication intransitive»: poss=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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