Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 90
Now I see why the great Chief pretended not to notice me!
Who acts: I, great Chief · What happens: see, pretend, not notice · To what, where: me
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, great Chief), 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 | 3 see | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 pretended | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Chief | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Chief | amod |
| 7 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 pretended | nsubj |
| 8 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | advcl |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 notice | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 notice | mark |
| 11 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 pretended | xcomp |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 notice | obj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | I | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | pretend | past | the great Chief | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not notice | to-infinitive | the great Chief not said here | me | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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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