Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 105

Now, if I may trouble you to unlace my back and front plates two holes more, I’ll try that fascinating bend that you say is so easy.

Who acts: I, you, fascinating bend · What happens: trouble, unlace, try, say, be · To what, where: back, fascinating bend · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, you, fascinating bend), 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	9 unlace	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 trouble	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 trouble	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 trouble	aux
6	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 unlace	advcl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 unlace	nsubj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 unlace	mark
9	unlace	unlace	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 back	nmod:poss
11	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 unlace	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 plates	cc
13	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 plates	compound
14	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 back	conj
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 holes	nummod
16	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 plates	nmod
17	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 holes	amod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 try	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 try	nsubj
20	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 try	aux
21	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 unlace	conj
22	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 bend	det
23	fascinating	fascinating	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bend	amod
24	bend	bend	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 easy	nsubj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 say	obj
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 say	nsubj
27	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 bend	acl:relcl
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 easy	cop
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 easy	advmod
30	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 try	ccomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 unlace	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	trouble a condition, not said to happen	may	I				tree rules
2	unlace	to-infinitive	you	my back and front plates two holes	now		vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Patient
3	try	future	I				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	present	you	that fascinating bend			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic
5	is	present	that fascinating bend			easy 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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