Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 15

Now which of you is Hedgehog and which is Tortoise? because, to save my spots, I can’t tell.’

Who acts: Hedgehog, I · What happens: be, save, not tell · To what, where: Tortoise, spots, ’ · 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 (Hedgehog, I), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 tell	advmod
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 Hedgehog	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 Hedgehog	case
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 Hedgehog	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Hedgehog	cop
6	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Now	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Tortoise	cc
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 Tortoise	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 Tortoise	cop
10	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Hedgehog	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 save	mark
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 save	punct
14	to	to	PART	_	15 save	mark
15	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 tell	advcl
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 spots	nmod:poss
17	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 save	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 save	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 tell	nsubj
20	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 tell	aux
21	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 tell	advmod
22	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 tell	punct
24	’	'	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tell	obj

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present				of Hedgehog and Tortoise	tree rules
2	is a	present	Hedgehog and Tortoise	Tortoise			tree rules
3	save	to-infinitive	I not said here	my spots			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Theme
4	not tell speech: assert	can	I	’	now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent '=Recipient

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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