Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 21

Perhaps she said that when you water a Hedgehog you must drop him into your paw, and when you meet a Tortoise you must shell him till he uncoils.’

Who acts: Mummy, you, water, Tortoise · What happens: say, water, drop, meet, shell, uncoil · To what, where: Hedgehog, paw · 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, water, Tortoise), 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	_	12 drop	mark
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 water	advmod
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 water	nsubj
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 drop	nsubj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Hedgehog	det
9	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 water	appos
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 drop	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 drop	aux
12	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 drop	obj
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 paw	case
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 paw	nmod:poss
16	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 drop	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 meet	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 meet	cc
19	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 meet	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 meet	nsubj
21	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 Tortoise	det
23	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 shell	nsubj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 shell	nsubj
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 shell	aux
26	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 meet	obl
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 shell	obj
28	till	till	SCONJ	_	30 uncoils	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 uncoils	nsubj
30	uncoils	uncoil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 meet	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Mummy			perhaps property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	water		you				tree rules
3	drop	must	water	Hedgehog	your paw		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into paw=Destination
4	meet	present	you				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	shell	must	a Tortoise	Hedgehog			tree rules
6	uncoil	present	water				vn separate-23.1 «NP V»: agent=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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