Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 113
And so Stickly-Prickly dived, and Slow-and-Solid dived alongside.
Who acts: Stickly Prickly, Solid · What happens: dive
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, 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 dived | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 dived | advmod |
| 3 | Stickly | stickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Prickly | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Stickly | punct |
| 5 | Prickly | Prickly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 dived | nsubj |
| 6 | dived | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dived | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dived | cc |
| 9 | Slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 dived | advmod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 dived | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dived | cc |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 and | punct |
| 13 | Solid | Solid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 dived | nsubj |
| 14 | dived | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dived | conj |
| 15 | alongside | alongside | ADV | _ | 14 dived | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dive | past | Stickly Prickly | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | dive | past | Solid | alongside property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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