Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 147
Curls up, but can’t swim-- Slow-Solid, that’s him!’
What happens: curl up, not swim
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: 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 | Curls | curl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Curls | compound:prt |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Curls | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 swim | cc |
| 5 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 swim | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 swim | advmod |
| 7 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Curls | conj |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Curls | punct |
| 9 | Slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Solid | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Slow | punct |
| 11 | Solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Curls | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ’s | punct |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 ’s | nsubj |
| 14 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Curls | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ’s | obj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Curls | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Curls | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curl up | present | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | not swim | can | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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