Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 16
‘Are you sure of what your Mummy told you?’ said Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog.
Who acts: you, Mummy · What happens: be, tell, say · To what, where: you · 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 (you, Mummy), 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 | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 sure | nsubj |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 what | case |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 sure | ccomp |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 Mummy | nmod:poss |
| 8 | Mummy | Mummy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 told | nsubj |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 what | acl:relcl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 told | iobj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Stickly | stickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Hedgehog | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Stickly | punct |
| 16 | Prickly | prickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Hedgehog | amod |
| 17 | Hedgehog | Hedgehog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | your Mummy | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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