Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 120
They are all overlapping now, instead of lying side by side.’
Who acts: plates · What happens: overlap, lie · To what, where: side
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 (plates), 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 overlapping | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 overlapping | aux |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 overlapping | advmod |
| 4 | overlapping | overlap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 overlapping | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lying | punct |
| 7 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 9 lying | mark |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 instead | fixed |
| 9 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 overlapping | conj |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lying | obj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 side | case |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lying | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 overlapping | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 overlapping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overlap | present · progressive | plates = plate | now | all property | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | lie | gerund | plates = plate not said here | side | by side | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location side=Theme |
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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