Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 81

She is the most beautifullest Mummy there ever was, but she won’t be ‘fended when she sees I’ve drawn her so plain.

Who acts: Mind, I · What happens: be, not be, see, draw · To what, where: beautifullest Mummy, Mind · 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 (Mind, I), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Mummy	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Mummy	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Mummy	det
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 beautifullest	advmod
5	beautifullest	beautifull	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 Mummy	amod
6	Mummy	mummy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 was	expl
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 was	advmod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Mummy	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fended	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 fended	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fended	nsubj
13	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 fended	aux
14	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 fended	advmod
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 fended	cop
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 fended	punct
17	fended	fend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Mummy	conj
18	when	when	SCONJ	_	20 sees	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sees	nsubj
20	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 fended	advcl
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 drawn	nsubj
22	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 drawn	aux
23	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 sees	ccomp
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 drawn	obj
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 plain	advmod
26	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 drawn	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Mummy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Mind	the beautifullest Mummy		tree rules
2	not is	future	Mind		fend property	tree rules
3	see	present	Mind			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	draw	present · perfect	I	Mind		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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