Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 84
It’s inside really, but you show the picture to my Mummy and she’ll give it you.
Who acts: you, Mind · What happens: show, 'll, give · To what, where: picture, Mummy, you
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, Mind), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ’s | nsubj |
| 2 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 2 ’s | advmod |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 2 ’s | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 show | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 show | cc |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 show | nsubj |
| 8 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 ’s | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 picture | det |
| 10 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 show | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Mummy | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 Mummy | nmod:poss |
| 13 | Mummy | Mummy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 show | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ’ll | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ’ll | nsubj |
| 16 | ’ll | 'll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 show | conj |
| 17 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 ’ll | ccomp |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 give | iobj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 give | iobj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ’s | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | you | the picture | my Mummy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent picture=Topic to mummy=Recipient | |||
| 2 | 'll | past | Mind | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | give | infinitive | Mind not said here | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient you=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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