Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 22

‘I don’t think it was at all like that,’ said Painted Jaguar, but he felt a little puzzled; ‘but, please, say it again more distinctly.’

Who acts: I, Painted Jaguar, Jaguar · What happens: not think, say, feel, puzzle · To what, where: all, little, 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 (I, Painted Jaguar, Jaguar), 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	_	5 think	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 think	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 think	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 think	advmod
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 all	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 all	cop
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 think	obl
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 that	case
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 all	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	Painted	Painted	PROPN	_	16 Jaguar	compound
16	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 felt	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 felt	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 felt	nsubj
20	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 little	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 puzzled	obl:unmarked
23	puzzled	puzzle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 felt	advcl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 say	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	30 say	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 say	cc
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 but	punct
28	please	please	INTJ	_	30 say	discourse
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 please	punct
30	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 said	parataxis
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 say	obj
32	again	again	ADV	_	30 say	advmod
33	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	34 distinctly	advmod
34	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	_	30 say	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 say	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	30 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	present · do-support	I		all			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Painted Jaguar					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	feel	past	Jaguar					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	puzzle	participle	Jaguar not said here	a little				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	say speech: assert	infinitive		paw		again	distinctly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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