Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 116

Now I’ll try that exercise of putting my hind legs round my ears which you say is so peculiarly comfortable.

Who acts: I, exercise, you · What happens: try, put, say, be · To what, where: hind legs, ears · 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, exercise, you), 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	4 try	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 try	nsubj
3	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 try	aux
4	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 exercise	det
6	exercise	exercise	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 comfortable	nsubj
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 putting	mark
8	putting	put	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 exercise	acl
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 legs	nmod:poss
10	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 legs	amod
11	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 putting	obj
12	round	round	ADP	_	14 ears	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 ears	nmod:poss
14	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 putting	obl
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 say	obj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 say	nsubj
17	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 ears	acl:relcl
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 comfortable	cop
19	so	so	ADV	_	21 comfortable	advmod
20	peculiarly	peculiarly	ADV	_	21 comfortable	advmod
21	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 try	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	try	future	I		now		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	put	gerund	that exercise not said here	my hind legs		round my ears	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent leg=Goal
3	say speech: assert	present	you	my ears			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic
4	is	present	that exercise			comfortable, peculiarly 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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