Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 49

I said that your mother said that you were to scoop me out of my shell,’ said Slow-and-Solid.

Who acts: I, mother, you, Slow · What happens: say, scoop · To what, where: me, 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 (I, mother, you, Slow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2781:351): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 said	ccomp
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 said	mark
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mother	nmod:poss
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 scoop	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 scoop	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 scoop	aux
10	to	to	PART	_	11 scoop	mark
11	scoop	scoop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 scoop	obj
13	out	out	ADP	_	16 shell	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	13 out	fixed
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 shell	nmod:poss
16	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 scoop	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	Slow	Slow	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 Solid	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Solid	cc
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 Solid	punct
24	Solid	Solid	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Slow	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	I			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	your mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	scoop	past	you	me	my shell	vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent i=Theme out shell=Trajectory
4	say speech: assert	past	Slow and Solid			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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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