Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 121
‘Oh, that’s the result of exercise,’ said Slow-and-Solid.
Who acts: that, result · What happens: be, say · To what, where: result · 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 (that, result), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 result | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 result | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 result | nsubj |
| 5 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 result | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 result | det |
| 7 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 exercise | case |
| 9 | exercise | exercise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 result | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 result | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 result | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | xcomp |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Slow | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Solid | cc |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 and | punct |
| 17 | Solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Slow | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | the result | of exercise | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the result | slow property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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