Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 25

‘But,’ said the Tortoise, ‘when you paw your meat you drop it into a Tortoise with a scoop.

Who acts: you · What happens: say, paw, drop · To what, where: Tortoise, meat, 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	_	5 said	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 said	cc
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 But	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Tortoise	det
7	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 paw	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 paw	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 paw	nsubj
12	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drop	obl
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 meat	nmod:poss
14	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 paw	nmod
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 drop	nsubj
16	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 drop	obj
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 Tortoise	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 Tortoise	det
20	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drop	obl
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 scoop	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 scoop	det
23	scoop	scoop	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drop	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the Tortoise			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tortoise=Topic
2	paw		you	your meat			tree rules
3	drop	present	you	paw	a Tortoise	with a scoop	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into tortoise=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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