Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 41

She must be the daughter of that noble Chief who is so great that he won’t take any notice of me.’

Who acts: child, daughter, Chief · What happens: be, not take, notice · To what, where: daughter, notice, me

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 (child, daughter, Chief), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 daughter	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 daughter	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 daughter	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 daughter	det
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 Chief	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 Chief	nsubj
8	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Chief	amod
9	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 daughter	nmod
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 great	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 great	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 great	advmod
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 daughter	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 take	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 take	nsubj
16	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 take	aux
17	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 take	advmod
18	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 great	csubj
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 notice	det
20	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 take	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 me	case
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 notice	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 daughter	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 daughter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	must	child	the daughter	of noble Chief	tree rules
2	is	present	the daughter		great property	tree rules
3	not take	future	Chief	any notice of me		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme
4	notice			me		nom notice «communication transitive»: of=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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