Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 150

‘Taffy dear, I’m afraid we’re in for a little trouble,’ said her Daddy, and put his arm round her, so she didn’t care.

Who acts: I, we, person · What happens: be, 're, say, put, not care · To what, where: Daddy, arm · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, we, person), 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	_	3 dear	punct
2	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dear	compound
3	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ’m	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 ’m	nsubj
6	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dear	parataxis
7	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ’m	xcomp
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 ’re	nsubj
9	’re	're	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 afraid	ccomp
10	in	in	ADV	_	9 ’re	advmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 trouble	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 trouble	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 trouble	amod
14	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ’re	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ’m	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 dear	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 Daddy	nmod:poss
19	Daddy	daddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 put	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 put	cc
22	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 said	parataxis
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 arm	nmod:poss
24	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 put	obj
25	round	round	ADP	_	26 her	case
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 put	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 care	punct
28	so	so	ADV	_	32 care	advmod
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 care	nsubj
30	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 care	aux
31	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 care	advmod
32	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 put	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	be	present	I		afraid property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	're	past	we		for a little trouble	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past		person's Daddy		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent daddy=Topic
4	put	infinitive		Tegumai's arm	round person	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent arm=Goal
5	not care	past · do-support	person			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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