Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 152
‘But it isn’t a Hedgehog, and it isn’t a Tortoise.
Who acts: tail · What happens: not be · To what, where: Hedgehog, Tortoise
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 (tail), 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 | _ | 7 Hedgehog | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 Hedgehog | cc |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 Hedgehog | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Hedgehog | cop |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 Hedgehog | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Hedgehog | det |
| 7 | Hedgehog | Hedgehog | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Tortoise | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Tortoise | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 Tortoise | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 Tortoise | cop |
| 12 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 Tortoise | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 Tortoise | det |
| 14 | Tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Hedgehog | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Hedgehog | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | tail | a Hedgehog and a Tortoise | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is a | present | tail | a Tortoise | tree rules |
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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