Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 14

My mother said that when I meet a Hedgehog I am to drop him into the water and then he will uncoil, and when I meet a Tortoise I am to scoop him out of his shell with my paw.

Who acts: mother, I, Hedgehog · What happens: say, meet, drop, uncoil, scoop · To what, where: Hedgehog, water, Tortoise, 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 (mother, I, Hedgehog), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 drop	mark
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 meet	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 meet	nsubj
7	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 drop	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Hedgehog	det
9	Hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 meet	obj
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 drop	nsubj
11	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 drop	aux
12	to	to	PART	_	13 drop	mark
13	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 drop	obj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 water	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 water	det
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drop	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 uncoil	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 uncoil	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 uncoil	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 uncoil	aux
22	uncoil	uncoil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 drop	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 scoop	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 scoop	cc
25	when	when	SCONJ	_	27 meet	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 meet	nsubj
27	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 scoop	advcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 Tortoise	det
29	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 meet	obj
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 scoop	nsubj
31	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 scoop	aux
32	to	to	PART	_	33 scoop	mark
33	scoop	scoop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 scoop	obj
35	out	out	ADP	_	38 shell	case
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 shell	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 shell	nmod:poss
38	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 scoop	obl
39	with	with	ADP	_	41 paw	case
40	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 paw	nmod:poss
41	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 scoop	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	My mother					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	meet	present	I	a Hedgehog				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hedgehog=Co-Agent
3	drop	present	I	Hedgehog	the water			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into water=Destination
4	uncoil	future	Hedgehog			then		vn separate-23.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	meet	present	I	a Tortoise				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tortoise=Co-Agent
6	scoop	present	I	Hedgehog	Hedgehog's shell		with my paw	vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=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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