Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 67
I think you’re very nice really, but I can’t make you pretty in the picture, so you mustn’t be ‘fended.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: think, be, not make, not ‘, fend · To what, where: you, picture · 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 (I, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 think | nsubj |
| 2 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 ’re | nsubj |
| 4 | ’re | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 think | ccomp |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 nice | advmod |
| 6 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ’re | ccomp |
| 7 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 nice | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 make | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 make | nsubj |
| 11 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 make | aux |
| 12 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 make | advmod |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 think | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 make | obj |
| 15 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 13 make | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 picture | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 picture | det |
| 18 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 ‘ | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 ‘ | advmod |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 ‘ | nsubj |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 ‘ | aux |
| 23 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 ‘ | advmod |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 ‘ | aux:pass |
| 25 | ‘ | ‘ | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 think | conj |
| 26 | fended | fend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 ‘ | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | does | present | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not make | can | I | you | the picture | pretty property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Product | ||
| 4 | not ‘ | must · passive | you | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | fend | participle | 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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