Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 59
You can look over my shoulder, but you mustn’t joggle.
Who acts: You · What happens: look, not joggle
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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2781:480): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
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 | 3 look | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 look | aux |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 shoulder | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 6 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 look | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 joggle | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 joggle | cc |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 joggle | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 joggle | aux |
| 11 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 joggle | advmod |
| 12 | joggle | joggle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 look | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | can | You | over my shoulder | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over shoulder=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not joggle | must | you | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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