Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 35

Worse than that, he knocked Stickly-Prickly away and away into the woods and the bushes, where it was too dark to find him.

Who acts: Jaguar, paw · What happens: knock away, be, find · To what, where: woods, 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 (Jaguar, paw), 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	Worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 knocked	advmod
2	than	than	ADP	_	3 that	case
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 Worse	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Worse	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 knocked	nsubj
6	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Stickly	stickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Prickly	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Stickly	punct
9	Prickly	prickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 away	amod
10	away	away	ADV	_	6 knocked	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 away	cc
12	away	away	ADV	_	10 away	conj
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 woods	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 woods	det
15	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 knocked	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bushes	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bushes	det
18	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 woods	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 dark	punct
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 dark	advmod
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 dark	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 dark	cop
23	too	too	ADV	_	24 dark	advmod
24	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bushes	acl:relcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 find	mark
26	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 dark	advcl
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 find	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 knocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	knock away	past	Jaguar		the woods and the bushes		vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wood=Location
2	is	past	paw			dark property	tree rules
3	find	to-infinitive	paw not said here	Jaguar			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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