Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 34
Painted Jaguar darted out his paddy-paw just as Stickly-Prickly curled himself up, and of course Jaguar’s paddy-paw was just filled with prickles.
Who acts: Painted Jaguar · What happens: paint, dart out, curl up, fill · To what, where: paddy paw, Jaguar
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 (Painted 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 | Painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Jaguar | amod |
| 2 | Jaguar | Jaguar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 darted | nsubj |
| 3 | darted | dart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 darted | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 paw | nmod:poss |
| 6 | paddy | paddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 paw | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 paddy | punct |
| 8 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 darted | obj |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 curled | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 curled | mark |
| 11 | Stickly | stickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Prickly | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Stickly | punct |
| 13 | Prickly | prickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 curled | amod |
| 14 | curled | curl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 darted | advcl |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 curled | obj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 curled | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 filled | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 filled | cc |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 paw | case |
| 20 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 of | fixed |
| 21 | Jaguar | Jaguar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 paw | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 Jaguar | case |
| 23 | paddy | paddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 paw | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 paddy | punct |
| 25 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 filled | obl |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 filled | aux:pass |
| 27 | just | just | ADV | _ | 28 filled | advmod |
| 28 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 darted | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 prickles | case |
| 30 | prickles | prickle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 filled | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 darted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | dart out | past | Painted Jaguar | Jaguar's paddy paw | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paw=Agent | ||||
| 3 | curl up | participle | Painted Jaguar not said here | Jaguar | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fill | past · passive | Painted Jaguar not said here | of Jaguar's paddy paw; with prickles | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: with prickle=Instrument |
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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