Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 122

‘I’ve noticed that your prickles seem to be melting into one another, and that you’re growing to look rather more like a pinecone, and less like a chestnut-burr, than you used to.’

Who acts: prickles, you · What happens: notice, seem, melt, be, grow, look · To what, where: I · 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 (prickles, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 noticed	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 noticed	nsubj
3	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 noticed	aux:pass
4	noticed	notice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 seem	mark
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 prickles	nmod:poss
7	prickles	prickle	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 seem	nsubj
8	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 noticed	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	11 melting	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 melting	aux
11	melting	melt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 seem	advcl
12	into	into	ADP	_	13 one	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 melting	obl
14	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	13 one	fixed
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 used	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 used	cc
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 ’re	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 ’re	nsubj
19	’re	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 used	advcl
20	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 ’re	xcomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 look	mark
22	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 growing	xcomp
23	rather	rather	ADV	_	24 more	advmod
24	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 look	advmod
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 pinecone	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 pinecone	det
27	pinecone	pinecone	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 more	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 burr	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 burr	cc
30	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	35 burr	advmod
31	like	like	ADP	_	35 burr	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 burr	det
33	chestnut	chestnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 burr	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 chestnut	punct
35	burr	burr	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ’re	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 used	punct
37	than	than	SCONJ	_	39 used	mark
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 used	nsubj
39	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 noticed	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	39 used	xcomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 noticed	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	notice	present · passive		I		tree rules
2	seem	present	your prickles			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	melt	to-infinitive · progressive	your prickles not said here		into one	vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into one=Product
4	does	present	you			tree rules
5	grow	gerund	you not said here			tree rules
6	look	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	use	past	you			vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: 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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