Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 23

Then she said--‘I say, Daddy, it’s an awful nuisance that you and I don’t know how to write, isn’t it?

Who acts: Taffy, I, you · What happens: say, be, not know, write · To what, where: awful nuisance · 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 (Taffy, I, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2781:453): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 said	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 nuisance	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 nuisance	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 nuisance	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Daddy	punct
9	Daddy	daddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 nuisance	vocative
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 nuisance	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 nuisance	expl
12	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 nuisance	cop
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 nuisance	det
14	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 nuisance	amod
15	nuisance	nuisance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 know	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 know	nsubj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 I	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 you	conj
20	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 know	aux
21	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 know	advmod
22	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 nuisance	csubj
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 write	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 write	mark
25	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 know	ccomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 is	punct
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 nuisance	parataxis
28	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 is	advmod
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 is	nsubj
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Taffy		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	I				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present		a awful nuisance		Daddy vocative	tree rules
4	not know	present · do-support	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	write	to-infinitive					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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