Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 2

In the very middle of those times was a Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog, and he lived on the banks of the turbid Amazon, eating shelly snails and things.

Who acts: Beloved · What happens: be, live, eat · To what, where: Stickly Prickly Hedgehog, middle, banks, shelly snails

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 (Beloved), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 middle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 middle	det
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 middle	advmod
4	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Hedgehog	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 times	case
6	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 times	det
7	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 middle	nmod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 Hedgehog	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 Hedgehog	det
10	Stickly	stickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Hedgehog	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Stickly	punct
12	Prickly	prickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Hedgehog	amod
13	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lived	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 lived	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lived	nsubj
17	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 Hedgehog	acl:relcl
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 banks	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 banks	det
20	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 lived	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 Amazon	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Amazon	det
23	turbid	turbid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Amazon	amod
24	Amazon	amazon	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 banks	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 eating	punct
26	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 lived	advcl
27	shelly	shelly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 snails	amod
28	snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 eating	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 things	cc
30	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 snails	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 Hedgehog	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past		a Stickly Prickly Hedgehog	the middle of that times	tree rules
2	live	past	Beloved	a Stickly Prickly Hedgehog not said here	the banks of the turbid Amazon	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme hedgehog=Location
3	eat	gerund	Beloved not said here	shelly snails and things		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snail=Patient

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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