Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 100
It’s making you black in the face.
Who acts: bit · What happens: make · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Beginning of the Armadillos. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bit), 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 | 3 making | nsubj |
| 2 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 making | aux |
| 3 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 making | obj |
| 5 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 making | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 face | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 face | det |
| 8 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 black | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 making | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · progressive | bit | you | black property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material you=Product |
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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