Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 46

On the other hand, if you think she said that you were to uncoil me with a scoop, instead of pawing me into drops with a shell, I can’t help that, can I?’

Who acts: you, mother, I · What happens: think, say, uncoil, paw, not help · To what, where: me, drops, that, other hand · 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 (you, mother, 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 hand	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hand	det
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hand	amod
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 help	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 think	punct
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 think	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 think	nsubj
8	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hand	conj
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 think	ccomp
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 uncoil	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 uncoil	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 uncoil	aux
14	to	to	PART	_	15 uncoil	mark
15	uncoil	uncoil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 uncoil	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 scoop	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 scoop	det
19	scoop	scoop	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 uncoil	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pawing	punct
21	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	23 pawing	mark
22	of	of	ADP	_	21 instead	fixed
23	pawing	paw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	advcl
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 pawing	obj
25	into	into	ADP	_	26 drops	case
26	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 pawing	obl
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 shell	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 shell	det
29	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pawing	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hand	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 help	nsubj
32	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 help	aux
33	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 help	advmod
34	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
35	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 help	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 can	punct
37	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 help	conj
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 can	nsubj
39	?	?	PUNCT	_	34 help	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	34 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other a condition, not said to happen	present	you				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	mother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	uncoil	past	you	me		with a scoop	vn separate-23.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
4	paw	gerund	mother not said here	me		into drops result; with a shell	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent i=Patient into drop=Result with shell=Instrument
5	not help	can	I	that	the other hand		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary

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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