Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 51

You want my Mummy’s living-address?

Who acts: You, Mummy · What happens: want, address · To what, where: living address

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, Mummy), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 Mummy	nmod:poss
4	Mummy	Mummy	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 address	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 Mummy	case
6	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 address	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 living	punct
8	address	address	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 want	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	You	my Mummy's living address					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot address=Theme
2	address		my Mummy						nom address «communication transitive»: poss=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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