Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 23
‘When you scoop water with your paw you uncoil it with a Hedgehog,’ said Stickly-Prickly.
Who acts: you · What happens: scoop, uncoil, say · To what, where: water, 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 (you), 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 | _ | 10 uncoil | punct |
| 2 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 scoop | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 scoop | nsubj |
| 4 | scoop | scoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 uncoil | advcl |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scoop | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 paw | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 paw | nmod:poss |
| 8 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scoop | obl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 uncoil | nsubj |
| 10 | uncoil | uncoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | ccomp |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 uncoil | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 Hedgehog | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 Hedgehog | det |
| 14 | Hedgehog | Hedgehog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 uncoil | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 uncoil | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 uncoil | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | Stickly | stickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Prickly | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Stickly | punct |
| 20 | Prickly | prickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 said | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scoop | present | you | water | with your paw | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme | |||
| 2 | uncoil | present | you | paw | with a Hedgehog | vn separate-23.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | prickly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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