Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 120
Daddy dear, this is my surprise.
Who acts: this · What happens: be · To what, where: surprise
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 (this), 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 | Daddy | Daddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Daddy | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 surprise | punct |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 surprise | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 surprise | cop |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 7 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Daddy | appos |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Daddy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this | my surprise | 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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