Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 135
You must be very wise.’
Who acts: You · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Cat That Walked By Himself. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 wise | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 wise | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wise | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 wise | advmod |
| 5 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wise | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 wise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | You | wise property | 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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