Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 110
A little more expression, please, and don’t grunt quite so much, or Painted Jaguar may hear us.
Who acts: Painted Jaguar · What happens: not grunt, hear · To what, where: us
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 (Painted Jaguar), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 expression | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 expression | amod |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 expression | amod |
| 4 | expression | expression | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 expression | punct |
| 6 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 4 expression | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 grunt | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 grunt | cc |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 grunt | aux |
| 10 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 grunt | advmod |
| 11 | grunt | grunt | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 expression | parataxis |
| 12 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 11 grunt | advmod |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 much | advmod |
| 14 | much | much | ADV | _ | 11 grunt | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hear | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 hear | cc |
| 17 | Painted | Painted | PROPN | _ | 18 Jaguar | compound |
| 18 | Jaguar | Jaguar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 hear | nsubj |
| 19 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 hear | aux |
| 20 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 grunt | conj |
| 21 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 hear | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 expression | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not grunt | infinitive · do-support | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | hear | may | Painted Jaguar | us | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus |
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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