Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 102

And so Stickly-Prickly practiced, and Slow-Solid swam alongside.

Who acts: Stickly Prickly, Slow Solid · What happens: practice, swim

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 (Stickly Prickly, Slow Solid), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 practiced	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	6 practiced	advmod
3	Stickly	stickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Prickly	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Stickly	punct
5	Prickly	Prickly	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 practiced	nsubj
6	practiced	practice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 swam	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 swam	cc
9	Slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Solid	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Slow	punct
11	Solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 swam	nsubj
12	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 practiced	conj
13	alongside	alongside	ADV	_	12 swam	advmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 practiced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	practice	past	Stickly Prickly						vn rehearse-26.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	swim	past	Slow Solid					alongside property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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