Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 7

And she was Tegumai Bopsulai’s Best Beloved and her own Mummy’s Best Beloved, and she was not spanked half as much as was good for her; and they were all three very happy.

Who acts: person, manners · What happens: be, not spank · To what, where: person

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 (person, manners), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 Beloved	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 Tegumai	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Tegumai	cop
4	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Beloved	vocative
5	Bopsulai	Bopsulai	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Tegumai	flat
6	’s	's	PART	_	4 Tegumai	case
7	Best	Good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Beloved	flat
8	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Beloved	cc
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 Mummy	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Mummy	amod
12	Mummy	Mummy	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Beloved	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 Mummy	case
14	Best	Good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Beloved	flat
15	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Beloved	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 spanked	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 spanked	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 spanked	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 spanked	aux:pass
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 spanked	advmod
21	spanked	spank	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 Beloved	acl:relcl
22	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	24 much	advmod
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 much	advmod
24	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 spanked	obj
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 good	mark
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 good	cop
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 much	advcl
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 her	case
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 good	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 happy	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 happy	cc
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 happy	nsubj
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 happy	cop
34	all	all	ADV	_	35 three	advmod
35	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 happy	nsubj
36	very	very	ADV	_	37 happy	advmod
37	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 spanked	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 Beloved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	person		's Tegumai	tree rules
2	not spank	past · passive		person		vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient much=Result
3	is	past			for person; good property	tree rules
4	is	past	manners		happy 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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