Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 29

‘I shan’t tell you,’ said Stickly-Prickly, ‘but you can scoop me out of my shell if you like.’

Who acts: I, you · What happens: not tell, say, scoop, like · To what, where: you, me, shell · 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, 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 tell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
3	sha	sha	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 tell	advmod
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	ccomp
10	Stickly	stickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Prickly	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Stickly	punct
12	Prickly	prickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 scoop	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 scoop	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 scoop	cc
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 scoop	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 scoop	aux
18	scoop	scoop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tell	conj
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 scoop	obj
20	out	out	ADP	_	23 shell	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 shell	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 shell	nmod:poss
23	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 scoop	obl
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 like	mark
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 like	nsubj
26	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 scoop	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert		I		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past					prickly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	scoop	can	you	me		my shell		vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent i=Theme out shell=Trajectory
4	like a condition, not said to happen	present	you					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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