Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 47
‘But you said you wanted to be scooped out of your shell with my paw,’ said Painted Jaguar.
Who acts: you, Painted Jaguar · What happens: say, want, scoop · To what, where: shell · 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, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 wanted | nsubj |
| 6 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 scooped | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 scooped | aux:pass |
| 9 | scooped | scoop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 wanted | xcomp |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 shell | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 shell | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 shell | nmod:poss |
| 13 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 scooped | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 paw | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 paw | nmod:poss |
| 16 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shell | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | Painted | Painted | PROPN | _ | 21 Jaguar | compound |
| 21 | Jaguar | Jaguar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 said | nsubj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | want | past | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | scoop not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | you not said here | your shell with my paw | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: out shell=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Painted Jaguar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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