Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 56

The shark’s tooth on my necklace is a magic shark’s tooth, and I was always told that if anybody touched it without my leave they would immediately swell up or burst, but this child doesn’t swell up or burst, and that important Chief, Man-who-attends-strictly-to-his-business, who has not yet taken any notice of me at all, doesn’t seem to be afraid that she will swell up or burst.

Who acts: tooth, anybody, teeth, child, important Chief, business · What happens: be, tell, touch, swell up, burst, not swell up · To what, where: tooth, I, necklace, leave, business, notice · 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 (tooth, anybody, teeth, child), 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	2 shark	det
2	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tooth	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 shark	case
4	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tooth	nsubj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 necklace	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 necklace	nmod:poss
7	necklace	necklace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tooth	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tooth	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 shark	det
10	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shark	compound
11	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tooth	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 shark	case
13	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 told	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 told	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 told	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 told	aux:pass
18	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	19 told	advmod
19	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 tooth	acl:relcl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 touched	mark
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 touched	mark
22	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 touched	nsubj
23	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 told	ccomp
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 touched	obj
25	without	without	ADP	_	27 leave	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 leave	nmod:poss
27	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 touched	obl
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 swell	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 swell	aux
30	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	31 swell	advmod
31	swell	swell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 leave	acl:relcl
32	up	up	ADP	_	31 swell	compound:prt
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 burst	cc
34	burst	burst	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 swell	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 swell	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 swell	cc
37	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 child	det
38	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 swell	nsubj
39	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 swell	aux
40	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 swell	advmod
41	swell	swell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 tooth	parataxis
42	up	up	ADP	_	41 swell	compound:prt
43	or	or	CCONJ	_	44 burst	cc
44	burst	burst	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 swell	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 Chief	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 Chief	cc
47	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	49 Chief	nsubj
48	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 Chief	amod
49	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 tooth	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 Man	punct
51	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 Chief	appos
52	-	-	PUNCT	_	51 Man	punct
53	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 attends	nsubj
54	-	-	PUNCT	_	53 who	punct
55	attends	attend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 Chief	acl:relcl
56	-	-	PUNCT	_	63 business	punct
57	strictly	strictly	ADV	_	63 business	advmod
58	-	-	PUNCT	_	63 business	punct
59	to	to	ADP	_	63 business	case
60	-	-	PUNCT	_	59 to	punct
61	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 business	nmod:poss
62	-	-	PUNCT	_	63 business	punct
63	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 attends	obj
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 taken	punct
65	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	69 taken	nsubj
66	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	69 taken	aux
67	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	69 taken	advmod
68	yet	yet	ADV	_	69 taken	advmod
69	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	63 business	conj
70	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	71 notice	det
71	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 taken	obj
72	of	of	ADP	_	73 me	case
73	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	71 notice	nmod
74	at	at	ADP	_	75 all	case
75	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	69 taken	obl
76	,	,	PUNCT	_	79 seem	punct
77	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	79 seem	aux
78	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	79 seem	advmod
79	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 attends	conj
80	to	to	PART	_	82 afraid	mark
81	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	82 afraid	cop
82	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	79 seem	xcomp
83	that	that	SCONJ	_	86 swell	mark
84	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	86 swell	nsubj
85	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	86 swell	aux
86	swell	swell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	82 afraid	xcomp
87	up	up	ADP	_	86 swell	compound:prt
88	or	or	CCONJ	_	89 burst	cc
89	burst	burst	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	86 swell	conj
90	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 tooth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the shark's tooth on my necklace	a magic shark's tooth and important Chief				tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive	a magic shark's tooth and important Chief not said here	I			always property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	touch a condition, not said to happen	past	anybody	necklace			without my leave	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
4	swell up	would	teeth = tooth	my leave not said here			immediately property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient leave=Extent
5	burst	infinitive	teeth = tooth not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not swell up	present · do-support	this child					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
7	burst	infinitive	this child not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	attend	present	important Chief	man's business				vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme business=Goal
9	not take	present · perfect	man's business	any notice of me	all	yet		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent notice=Theme at all=Asset
10	not seem	present · do-support	important Chief not said here					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
11	is	to-infinitive	important Chief not said here				afraid property	tree rules
12	swell up	future	child					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
13	burst	infinitive	child not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
14	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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