Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 74

Now how do you feel about being spanked again?’

Who acts: you · What happens: feel, spank

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), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 feel	advmod
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 feel	advmod
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 feel	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 feel	nsubj
5	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	about	about	SCONJ	_	8 spanked	mark
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 spanked	aux:pass
8	spanked	spank	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 feel	xcomp
9	again	again	ADV	_	8 spanked	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 feel	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 feel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present · do-support	you				now		vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	spank	gerund · passive	you not said here				again		vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»

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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