Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 100

You don’t know how surprised you’ll be, Daddy!

Who acts: You · What happens: not know, surprise, be

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the First Letter Was Written. 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	4 know	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 surprised	advmod
6	surprised	surprise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 know	advcl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 be	nsubj
8	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 be	aux
9	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 surprised	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Daddy	punct
11	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 know	vocative
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not know	present · do-support	You	Daddy vocative	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	surprise	participle	You not said here		tree rules
3	be	future	you		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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