Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 136
‘And how is your dear gracious Mummy this morning?’
What happens: be · To what, where: dear gracious Mummy
This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Beginning of the Armadillos. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 8 Mummy | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Mummy | cc |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 Mummy | advmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Mummy | cop |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 Mummy | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Mummy | amod |
| 7 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Mummy | amod |
| 8 | Mummy | Mummy | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 morning | det |
| 10 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Mummy | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 Mummy | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Mummy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | your dear gracious Mummy | morning | 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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