Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 148
Then they both curled themselves up and rolled round and round Painted Jaguar till his eyes turned truly cart-wheels in his head.
Who acts: prickles, eyes · What happens: curl up, roll, turn · To what, where: prickles, Painted, cart wheels
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 (prickles, eyes), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 curled | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 curled | nsubj |
| 3 | both | both | ADV | _ | 4 curled | advmod |
| 4 | curled | curl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 curled | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 curled | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 rolled | cc |
| 8 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 curled | conj |
| 9 | round | round | ADV | _ | 8 rolled | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 round | cc |
| 11 | round | round | ADV | _ | 9 round | conj |
| 12 | Painted | Painted | PROPN | _ | 8 rolled | obl |
| 13 | Jaguar | Jaguar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Painted | flat |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 17 turned | mark |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 turned | nsubj |
| 17 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 curled | advcl |
| 18 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 17 turned | advmod |
| 19 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wheels | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 cart | punct |
| 21 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 turned | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 head | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 head | nmod:poss |
| 24 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turned | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 curled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curl up | past | prickles = prickle | prickles = prickle | then | both property | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | ||
| 2 | roll | participle | prickles = prickle not said here | Painted | round property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | turn | past | Painted's eyes | cart wheels | in Painted's head; truly property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent wheel=Patient in head=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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