Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 127

Then they saw that they were both of them quite different from what they had been.

Who acts: prickles · What happens: see, be · 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), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 saw	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 different	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 different	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 different	cop
7	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	11 different	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 both	nmod
10	quite	quite	ADV	_	11 different	advmod
11	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 saw	ccomp
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 what	case
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 different	obl
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 been	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 been	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 what	acl:relcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	prickles = prickle				then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	prickles = prickle					different 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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