Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 140

It was all prickles,’ said Painted Jaguar.

Who acts: shell, prickles · What happens: be, say · To what, where: prickles · 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 (shell, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 prickles	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 prickles	cop
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 prickles	det
4	prickles	prickle	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 prickles	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 prickles	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Painted	Painted	PROPN	_	9 Jaguar	compound
9	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	shell	all prickles					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	all prickles						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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