Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 50
‘What will happen if I do?’ said the Jaguar most sniffily and most cautious.
Who acts: I, Jaguar · What happens: happen, do, say · 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, 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 happen | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 happen | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 happen | aux |
| 4 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 do | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 happen | advcl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 happen | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 happen | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Jaguar | det |
| 12 | Jaguar | Jaguar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 14 sniffily | advmod |
| 14 | sniffily | sniffily | ADV | _ | 10 said | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cautious | cc |
| 16 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 17 cautious | advmod |
| 17 | cautious | cautious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sniffily | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | future | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | do a condition, not said to happen | present | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Jaguar | sniffily property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how 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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