Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 73
Now I’ll show you how to find my Mummy’s living-address.
Who acts: I, Mummy · What happens: show, find, address · To what, where: you, living address · 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, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 show | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 show | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 show | aux |
| 4 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 show | iobj |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 find | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 find | mark |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 show | ccomp |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 Mummy | nmod:poss |
| 10 | Mummy | Mummy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 address | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Mummy | case |
| 12 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 address | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 living | punct |
| 14 | address | address | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 find | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | future | I | you | now | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | my Mummy's living address | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent address=Topic | |||||
| 3 | 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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