Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 48
‘If you’ll think again you’ll find that I didn’t say anything of the kind.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: think, find, not say · To what, where: anything · 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, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 think | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 4 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | aux |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 think | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 find | nsubj |
| 8 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 find | aux |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 think | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 say | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 say | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 say | aux |
| 13 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 say | advmod |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 find | ccomp |
| 15 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 say | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 kind | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 kind | det |
| 18 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 anything | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | future | you | again | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | find | future | you | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not say speech: assert | past · do-support | I | anything | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=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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