Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 163
Any steamer-kiddy ought to be able to do that; but if you can’t read, ask some one to show it you.
Who acts: steamer kiddy, you, one · What happens: be, do, not read, ask, show · To what, where: that, one, kiddy, you
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 (steamer kiddy, you, one), 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 | Any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 kiddy | det |
| 2 | steamer | steamer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kiddy | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 steamer | punct |
| 4 | kiddy | kiddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 able | nsubj |
| 5 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 able | aux |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 able | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 able | cop |
| 8 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 able | xcomp |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 do | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 ask | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 ask | cc |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 read | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 read | nsubj |
| 16 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 read | aux |
| 17 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 read | advmod |
| 18 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 ask | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 read | punct |
| 20 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 able | conj |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 one | det |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ask | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 show | mark |
| 24 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 ask | xcomp |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 show | obj |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 show | iobj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | ought | any steamer kiddy | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | any steamer kiddy not said here | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not read a condition, not said to happen | can | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | any steamer kiddy not said here | some one | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | show not said to happen | to-infinitive | some one not said here | kiddy | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient it=Topic |
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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