Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 134

He was so astonished that he fell three times backward over his own painted tail without stopping.

Who acts: Painted · What happens: be, fall, paint, stop · To what, where: own painted tail

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 (Painted), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 astonished	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 astonished	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 astonished	advmod
4	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 fell	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fell	nsubj
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 astonished	ccomp
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 times	nummod
9	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 backward	obl:unmarked
10	backward	backward	ADV	_	7 fell	advmod
11	over	over	ADP	_	15 tail	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 tail	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tail	amod
14	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 tail	amod
15	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fell	obl
16	without	without	SCONJ	_	17 stopping	mark
17	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 fell	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 astonished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Painted		astonished property	tree rules
2	fall	past	Painted	Painted's own painted tail	backward property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over tail=Location
3	paint	participle				vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	stop	gerund	Painted not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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