Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 150

‘Mother,’ he said, ‘there are two new animals in the woods to-day, and the one that you said couldn’t swim, swims, and the one that you said couldn’t curl up, curls; and they’ve gone shares in their prickles, I think, because both of them are scaly all over, instead of one being smooth and the other very prickly; and, besides that, they are rolling round and round in circles, and I don’t feel comfy.’

Who acts: Painted, two new animals, you, one, animals, I · What happens: say, be, not swim, swim, not curl up, curl · To what, where: one, gone shares, prickles, circles · 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 (Painted, two new animals, you, one), 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 Mother	punct
2	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Mother	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Mother	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 are	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 are	punct
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 are	expl
10	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 animals	nummod
12	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 animals	amod
13	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 are	nsubj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 woods	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 woods	det
16	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 animals	nmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 day	case
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 to	punct
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 woods	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 swim	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 swim	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 one	det
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 swim	nsubj
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 said	obj
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 said	nsubj
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 one	acl:relcl
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 swim	aux
28	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 swim	advmod
29	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 are	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 swims	punct
31	swims	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 swim	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 one	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 one	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 one	det
35	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 swims	obj
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 said	obj
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 said	nsubj
38	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 one	acl:relcl
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 curl	aux
40	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 curl	advmod
41	curl	curl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 said	ccomp
42	up	up	ADP	_	41 curl	compound:prt
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 curls	punct
44	curls	curl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 curl	conj
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 ’ve	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 ’ve	cc
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 ’ve	nsubj
48	’ve	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	parataxis
49	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 shares	amod
50	shares	share	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 ’ve	obj
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 prickles	case
52	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 prickles	nmod:poss
53	prickles	prickle	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 ’ve	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 think	punct
55	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 think	nsubj
56	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 ’ve	conj
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 scaly	punct
58	because	because	SCONJ	_	63 scaly	mark
59	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	63 scaly	nsubj
60	of	of	ADP	_	61 them	case
61	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 both	nmod
62	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	63 scaly	cop
63	scaly	scaly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 think	ccomp
64	all	all	ADV	_	65 over	advmod
65	over	over	ADV	_	63 scaly	advmod
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 smooth	punct
67	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	69 one	case
68	of	of	ADP	_	67 instead	fixed
69	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	71 smooth	nsubj
70	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	71 smooth	cop
71	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 scaly	conj
72	and	and	CCONJ	_	74 other	cc
73	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	74 other	det
74	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 smooth	conj
75	very	very	ADV	_	76 prickly	advmod
76	prickly	prickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 smooth	advcl
77	;	;	PUNCT	_	85 rolling	punct
78	and	and	CCONJ	_	85 rolling	cc
79	,	,	PUNCT	_	78 and	punct
80	besides	besides	ADP	_	81 that	case
81	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	78 and	obl
82	,	,	PUNCT	_	78 and	punct
83	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	85 rolling	nsubj
84	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	85 rolling	aux
85	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	advcl
86	round	round	ADV	_	85 rolling	advmod
87	and	and	CCONJ	_	88 round	cc
88	round	round	ADV	_	86 round	conj
89	in	in	ADP	_	90 circles	case
90	circles	circle	NOUN	Number=Plur	85 rolling	obl
91	,	,	PUNCT	_	96 feel	punct
92	and	and	CCONJ	_	96 feel	cc
93	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	96 feel	nsubj
94	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	96 feel	aux
95	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	96 feel	advmod
96	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	parataxis
97	comfy	comfy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	96 feel	xcomp
98	.	.	PUNCT	_	96 feel	punct
99	’	'	PUNCT	_	96 feel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Painted				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	does	present	two new animals in the woods to day		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	you	the one			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic
4	not swim	could	the one				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	swim	present	the one not said here	the one			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Trajectory
6	say speech: assert	past	you	the one			tree rules
7	not curl up	could					vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
8	curl	present					vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
9	have	present	animals = animal	gone shares	animals's prickles		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Patient
10	think speech: other	present	I				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	is	present	both			over, scaly property	tree rules
12	is	gerund	one			smooth property	tree rules
13	be		one not said here				tree rules
14	roll	present · progressive	animals = animal		circles	round property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in circle=Trajectory
15	not feel	present · do-support	I			comfy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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