Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 138

‘That’s unkind of you,’ said Stickly-Prickly, ‘seeing that this time yesterday you tried to scoop me out of my shell with your paw.’

Who acts: That, you · What happens: be, say, see, try, scoop · To what, where: time, me, shell · 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 (That, 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 unkind	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 unkind	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 unkind	cop
4	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 unkind	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 unkind	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 unkind	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Stickly	stickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Prickly	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Stickly	punct
12	Prickly	prickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seeing	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 seeing	punct
15	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 said	ccomp
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 time	mark
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 time	det
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seeing	obl
19	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 time	nmod:unmarked
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 tried	nsubj
21	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 time	acl:relcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 scoop	mark
23	scoop	scoop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 tried	xcomp
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 scoop	obj
25	out	out	ADP	_	28 shell	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 shell	case
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 shell	nmod:poss
28	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 scoop	obl
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 paw	case
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 paw	nmod:poss
31	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 scoop	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 seeing	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 seeing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	That				of you; unkind property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past					prickly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see	gerund				time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	try	past	you	this time yesterday not said here				tree rules
5	scoop not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	me	my shell		with your paw	vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent i=Theme out shell=Trajectory

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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