Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 159

There are Hedgehogs and Tortoises in other places, of course (there are some in my garden); but the real old and clever kind, with their scales lying lippety-lappety one over the other, like pine-cone scales, that lived on the banks of the turbid Amazon in the High and Far-Off Days, are always called Armadillos, because they were so clever.

Who acts: Hedgehogs, some, scales, that, banks · What happens: be, lie, live, call · To what, where: other places, lippety lappety one, other, banks · 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 (Hedgehogs, some, scales, that), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Tortoises	cc
5	Tortoises	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 Hedgehogs	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 places	case
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 places	amod
8	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 are	punct
10	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	14 are	advmod
11	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 of	fixed
12	(	(	PUNCT	_	14 are	punct
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 are	expl
14	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 are	conj
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 are	nsubj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 garden	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 garden	nmod:poss
18	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 some	nmod
19	)	)	PUNCT	_	18 garden	punct
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 kind	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 kind	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 kind	det
23	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 kind	amod
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 kind	amod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 clever	cc
26	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 old	conj
27	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 are	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 scales	punct
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 scales	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 scales	nmod:poss
31	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 kind	nmod
32	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 scales	acl
33	lippety	lippety	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 one	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 lippety	punct
35	lappety	lappety	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 one	compound
36	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lying	obj
37	over	over	ADP	_	39 other	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 other	det
39	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 lying	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 scales	punct
41	like	like	ADP	_	45 scales	case
42	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 cone	compound
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 pine	punct
44	cone	cone	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 scales	compound
45	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 lying	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 lived	punct
47	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 lived	nsubj
48	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 kind	conj
49	on	on	ADP	_	51 banks	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 banks	det
51	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 lived	obl
52	of	of	ADP	_	55 Amazon	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 Amazon	det
54	turbid	turbid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 Amazon	amod
55	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 banks	nmod
56	in	in	ADP	_	68 Armadillos	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 Armadillos	det
58	High	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 Armadillos	amod
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 called	cc
60	Far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	67 called	advmod
61	-	-	PUNCT	_	60 Far	punct
62	Off	off	ADP	_	63 Days	case
63	Days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	67 called	obl
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 Days	punct
65	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	67 called	aux:pass
66	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	67 called	advmod
67	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	58 High	conj
68	Armadillos	armadillo	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 lived	obl
69	,	,	PUNCT	_	74 clever	punct
70	because	because	SCONJ	_	74 clever	mark
71	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	74 clever	nsubj
72	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	74 clever	cop
73	so	so	ADV	_	74 clever	advmod
74	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 kind	conj
75	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	Hedgehogs and Tortoises		other places; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location
2	be	present	some		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lie	gerund	places's scales not said here	lippety lappety one	the other		like cone scales	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme
4	live	past	that		the banks of the turbid Amazon		in the High Armadillos	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in armadillo=Location
5	call	present · passive	that not said here			day	always, far property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»
6	is	past	banks = bank				clever property	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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