Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 39
The Stranger-man thought, this is a very wonderful child.
Who acts: Stranger man, this · What happens: think, be · To what, where: wonderful child · 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 (Stranger man, this), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 2 | Stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 man | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stranger | punct |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 child | punct |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 child | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 child | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 child | det |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 wonderful | advmod |
| 11 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 child | amod |
| 12 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the Stranger man | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | this | a wonderful child | tree rules |
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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