Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 46

But if I don’t do what she wants, I greatly fear that that haughty Chief, Man-who-turns-his-back-on-callers, will be angry.’

Who acts: I, child, Man · What happens: not do, want, fear, turn, be · To what, where: haughty Chief

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, child, Man), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	13 fear	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 do	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 do	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 do	advmod
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 fear	advcl
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wants	nsubj
9	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 what	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 fear	nsubj
12	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	13 fear	advmod
13	fear	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 Chief	mark
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 Chief	nsubj
16	haughty	haughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Chief	amod
17	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 fear	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Man	punct
19	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Chief	conj
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 turns	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 turns	nsubj
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 who	punct
23	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 Man	acl:relcl
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 his	punct
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 turns	advmod
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 back	punct
27	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 his	conj
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 callers	punct
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 callers	case
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 on	punct
31	callers	caller	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 back	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 angry	punct
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 angry	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 angry	cop
35	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Chief	parataxis
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 fear	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 fear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not do a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	I			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	want	present	child			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	fear	present	I	haughty Chief and Man	greatly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chief=Stimulus
4	turn	present	Man			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	is	future			angry property	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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