Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 70
Don’t you think the sun is very hot here?’
Who acts: you, sun · What happens: not do, think, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant’s Child. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sun), 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 | Do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 think | advcl |
| 2 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 1 Do | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sun | det |
| 6 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hot | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 hot | cop |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 hot | advmod |
| 9 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 think | ccomp |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 hot | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 hot | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 hot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | infinitive | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | you | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the sun | here | hot 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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