Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 18

Perhaps she said that when you uncoil a Tortoise you must shell him out the water with a scoop, and when you paw a Hedgehog you must drop him on the shell.’

Who acts: Mummy, you, paw · What happens: say out, uncoil, shell, paw, drop · To what, where: water, Tortoise, Hedgehog, shell · 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 (Mummy, you, paw), 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	3 said	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 uncoil	mark
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 uncoil	advmod
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 uncoil	nsubj
7	uncoil	uncoil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 shell	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Tortoise	det
9	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 uncoil	obj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 shell	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 shell	aux
12	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 shell	obj
14	out	out	ADP	_	3 said	compound:prt
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 water	det
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 scoop	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 scoop	det
19	scoop	scoop	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 drop	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 drop	cc
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 paw	advmod
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 paw	nsubj
24	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 drop	nsubj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 Hedgehog	det
26	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 paw	appos
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 drop	nsubj
28	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 drop	aux
29	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 drop	obj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 shell	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 shell	det
33	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 drop	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 drop	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	29 drop	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say out speech: assert	past	Mummy	the water		with a scoop; perhaps property	tree rules
2	uncoil	present	you	a Tortoise			vn separate-23.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tortoise=Patient
3	shell	must	you	Hedgehog			tree rules
4	paw		you				tree rules
5	drop	must	paw	Hedgehog	the shell		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on shell=Destination

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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