Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 11

They could not run away, and so Stickly-Prickly curled himself up into a ball, because he was a Hedgehog, and Slow-Solid Tortoise drew in his head and feet into his shell as far as they would go, because he was a Tortoise; and so that was all right, Best Beloved.

Who acts: banks, Hedgehog, Solid Tortoise, that · What happens: not run away, curl up, be, draw, go · To what, where: Hedgehog, ball, head, Tortoise

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 (banks, Hedgehog, Solid Tortoise, that), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 run	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 run	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 run	advmod
4	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 run	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Prickly	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Prickly	cc
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 Prickly	advmod
9	Stickly	stickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Prickly	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Stickly	punct
11	Prickly	prickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 run	conj
12	curled	curl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 Prickly	advcl
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 curled	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	12 curled	compound:prt
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 ball	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 ball	det
17	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 curled	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Hedgehog	punct
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 Hedgehog	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 Hedgehog	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 Hedgehog	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 Hedgehog	det
23	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 run	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 drew	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 drew	cc
26	Slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Solid	amod
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 Slow	punct
28	Solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Tortoise	amod
29	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 drew	nsubj
30	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 Hedgehog	acl:relcl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 head	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 head	nmod:poss
33	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 drew	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 feet	cc
35	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 head	conj
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 shell	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 shell	nmod:poss
38	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 drew	obl
39	as	as	ADV	_	40 far	advmod
40	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 drew	advmod
41	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 go	mark
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 go	nsubj
43	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 go	aux
44	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 far	advcl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 Tortoise	punct
46	because	because	SCONJ	_	50 Tortoise	mark
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 Tortoise	nsubj
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 Tortoise	cop
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 Tortoise	det
50	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 go	obl
51	;	;	PUNCT	_	57 right	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 right	cc
53	so	so	SCONJ	_	57 right	mark
54	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	57 right	nsubj
55	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 right	cop
56	all	all	ADV	_	57 right	advmod
57	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 run	parataxis
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 Beloved	punct
59	Best	Good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 Beloved	flat
60	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 right	vocative
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 run	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not run away	could	banks = bank			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	curl up	participle	banks = bank not said here	Hedgehog	a ball		vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into ball=Destination
3	is a	past	Hedgehog	a Hedgehog			tree rules
4	draw	past	Solid Tortoise	a Hedgehog not said here	Hedgehog's head and feet	into Hedgehog's shell; far property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hedgehog=Theme in head=Destination
5	go	would	banks = bank				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a	past	Hedgehog	a Tortoise			tree rules
7	is	past	that			Best Beloved vocative; all, right 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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