Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 128
‘Stickly-Prickly,’ said Tortoise after breakfast, ‘I am not what I was yesterday; but I think that I may yet amuse Painted Jaguar.
Who acts: Tortoise, I · What happens: say, not be, think, amuse · To what, where: Painted · 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 (Tortoise, I), 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 Prickly | punct |
| 2 | Stickly | stickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Prickly | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stickly | punct |
| 4 | Prickly | prickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Prickly | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 Prickly | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Tortoise | Tortoise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 breakfast | case |
| 10 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 what | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 what | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 what | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 what | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 what | advmod |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 said | parataxis |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 was | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 what | acl:relcl |
| 19 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 was | nsubj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 think | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 think | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 think | nsubj |
| 23 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 amuse | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 amuse | nsubj |
| 26 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 amuse | aux |
| 27 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 28 amuse | advmod |
| 28 | amuse | amuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 think | ccomp |
| 29 | Painted | Painted | PROPN | _ | 28 amuse | obj |
| 30 | Jaguar | Jaguar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Painted | flat |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Tortoise | after breakfast | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not is a | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | amuse | may | I | Painted | yet | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus painted=Experiencer |
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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