Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 90
‘I don’t think you peoples know anything about spanking; but I do, and I’ll show you.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: not think, know, spank, do, show · To what, where: anything, you · 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 (I, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 think | advmod |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 know | nsubj |
| 7 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | ccomp |
| 9 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 know | obj |
| 10 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 11 spanking | mark |
| 11 | spanking | spank | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 anything | acl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 do | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 show | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 show | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 show | nsubj |
| 19 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 show | aux |
| 20 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 do | advcl |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 show | iobj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | present · do-support | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know | present | you | anything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | spank | gerund | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | do | present | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | show | future | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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