Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 17
‘Let me run back to the Cave and ask Mummy to give it me.’
Who acts: you, me · What happens: let, run back, ask, give · To what, where: me, Mummy, Cave
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, me), 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 | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 run | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Cave | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Cave | det |
| 8 | Cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 run | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ask | cc |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 run | conj |
| 11 | Mummy | Mummy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ask | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 give | mark |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ask | xcomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 give | obj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 give | iobj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run back | infinitive | me not said here | to the Cave result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to cave=Result | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | me not said here | Mummy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent mummy=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | me not said here | Cave | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient it=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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