Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 126

They went on with their exercises, each helping the other, till morning came; and when the sun was high they rested and dried themselves.

Who acts: prickles, each, morning, sun · What happens: go on, help, come, be, rest, dry · To what, where: other, prickles

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, each, morning, sun), 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	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 exercises	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 exercises	nmod:poss
6	exercises	exercise	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 helping	punct
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 helping	nsubj
9	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 went	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 other	det
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 helping	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
13	till	till	SCONJ	_	15 came	mark
14	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 helping	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 high	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 high	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 high	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sun	det
20	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 high	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 high	cop
22	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	parataxis
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 rested	nsubj
24	rested	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 high	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 dried	cc
26	dried	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 rested	conj
27	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 dried	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go on	past	prickles = prickle		with prickles's exercises	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	help	gerund	each	the other		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Beneficiary
3	come	past	morning			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	the sun		high property	tree rules
5	rest	past	prickles = prickle			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	dry	past	prickles = prickle not said here	prickles = prickle		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient themselves=Result
7	exercise		prickles = prickle			nom exercise «act transitive»: poss=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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