Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 37

As soon as he could speak he said, ‘Now I know he isn’t Tortoise at all.

Who acts: Jaguar, I · What happens: speak, say, know, be · To what, where: n’t Tortoise, 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 (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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 said	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 speak	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 speak	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 speak	aux
6	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 soon	advcl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
11	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 know	advmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 know	nsubj
13	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 Tortoise	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 Tortoise	cop
16	n’t	n't	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Tortoise	amod
17	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 know	ccomp
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 all	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 Tortoise	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	could	Jaguar					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Jaguar				soon property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know	present	I			now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	present	Jaguar	n’t Tortoise	all			tree rules

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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