Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 148
‘Small-person-with-no-manners-who-ought-to-be-spanked!
What happens: spank · To what, where: manners
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: 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 | _ | 4 person | punct |
| 2 | Small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 person | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Small | punct |
| 4 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 manners | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 manners | case |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 with | punct |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 manners | det |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 no | punct |
| 10 | manners | manners | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 person | nmod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 spanked | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 spanked | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 who | punct |
| 14 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 spanked | aux |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 spanked | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 spanked | mark |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 to | punct |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 spanked | aux:pass |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 spanked | punct |
| 20 | spanked | spank | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 manners | acl:relcl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 person | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spank | ought · passive | no manners | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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