Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 99

‘If you won’t ask me questions, you’ll know all about it in a little time, and you’ll be surprised.

Who acts: you · What happens: not ask, know, be · To what, where: questions, 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 (you), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 ask	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 ask	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 ask	nsubj
4	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 ask	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 ask	advmod
6	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 ask	iobj
8	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ask	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 know	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 know	nsubj
11	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 know	aux
12	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ask	parataxis
13	all	all	ADV	_	15 it	advmod
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 know	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 time	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 time	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 time	amod
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 know	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 surprised	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 surprised	cc
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 surprised	nsubj
23	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 surprised	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 surprised	cop
25	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ask	parataxis
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not ask speech: ask	future	you	questions	me			tree rules
2	know	future	you			time	about road	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus
3	is	future	you				surprised 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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