Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 27
‘You are making my spots ache,’ said Painted Jaguar; ‘and besides, I didn’t want your advice at all.
Who acts: You, spots, Painted Jaguar, I · What happens: make, ache, say, not want · To what, where: spots, advice, all · 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, spots, Painted Jaguar, I), 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 | _ | 4 making | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 making | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 making | aux |
| 4 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 spots | nmod:poss |
| 6 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 making | obj |
| 7 | ache | ache | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 making | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 making | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 making | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Painted | Painted | PROPN | _ | 12 Jaguar | compound |
| 12 | Jaguar | Jaguar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 want | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 want | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 want | cc |
| 16 | besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 21 want | discourse |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 besides | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 want | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 want | aux |
| 20 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 want | advmod |
| 21 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 advice | nmod:poss |
| 23 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 want | obj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 all | case |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 want | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · progressive | You | my spots | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ache | infinitive | my spots not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Painted Jaguar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not want | past · do-support | I | your advice | all | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot advice=Theme |
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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