Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 36
Then he put his paddy-paw into his mouth, and of course the prickles hurt him worse than ever.
Who acts: Jaguar, prickles · What happens: put, hurt · To what, where: paddy paw, mouth, 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, prickles), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 paw | nmod:poss |
| 5 | paddy | paddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 paw | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 paddy | punct |
| 7 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 mouth | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hurt | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hurt | cc |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 prickles | case |
| 14 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 of | fixed |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 prickles | det |
| 16 | prickles | prickle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 hurt | nsubj |
| 17 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hurt | obj |
| 19 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 hurt | xcomp |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 ever | case |
| 21 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 worse | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Jaguar | Jaguar's paddy paw | Jaguar's mouth | then | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent paw=Goal | ||
| 2 | hurt | past | the prickles | Jaguar | bad property | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient |
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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