Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 138

‘And what are you doing to my nice Stranger-man?’

Who acts: you · What happens: do

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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 doing	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 doing	cc
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 doing	obj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 doing	aux
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 doing	nsubj
6	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	12 man	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 man	nmod:poss
9	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
10	Stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 man	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Stranger	punct
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doing	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 doing	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 doing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · progressive	you					to my nice Stranger man	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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