Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 145

‘Don’t you remember what your mother told you?’ said Stickly-Prickly,--

Who acts: you, mother · What happens: not do, remember, tell, say · To what, where: you · 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 (you, mother), 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	_	2 Do	punct
2	Do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 Do	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 remember	nsubj
5	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Do	parataxis
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 told	obj
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mother	nmod:poss
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	nsubj
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 remember	ccomp
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Do	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Do	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Stickly	stickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Prickly	amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 Stickly	punct
16	Prickly	prickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	not do	infinitive				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	remember	present	you			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	your mother	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Topic
4	say speech: assert	past			prickly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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