Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 51

‘I don’t know, because I’ve never been scooped out of my shell before; but I tell you truly, if you want to see me swim away you’ve only got to drop me into the water.

Who acts: I, you, me · What happens: not know, not scoop, tell, want, see, swim away · To what, where: I, shell, you, me, water · 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, you, me), 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 know	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 know	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 scooped	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 scooped	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 scooped	nsubj
9	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 scooped	aux
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 scooped	advmod
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 scooped	aux:pass
12	scooped	scoop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 know	ccomp
13	out	out	ADP	_	16 shell	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 shell	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 shell	nmod:poss
16	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 scooped	obl
17	before	before	ADV	_	12 scooped	advmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 tell	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 tell	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 tell	nsubj
21	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 know	conj
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 tell	iobj
23	truly	truly	ADV	_	21 tell	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 want	punct
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 want	mark
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 want	nsubj
27	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 tell	ccomp
28	to	to	PART	_	29 see	mark
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 want	xcomp
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 see	obj
31	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 see	xcomp
32	away	away	ADV	_	31 swim	advmod
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 got	nsubj
34	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 got	aux
35	only	only	ADV	_	36 got	advmod
36	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 want	parataxis
37	to	to	PART	_	38 drop	mark
38	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 got	xcomp
39	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 drop	obj
40	into	into	ADP	_	42 water	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 water	det
42	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 drop	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not know	present · do-support	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	not scoop	present · perfect · passive		I		my shell	before property	vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme out shell=Trajectory
3	tell speech: assert	present	I		you		truly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
4	want a condition, not said to happen	present	you					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	me				tree rules
6	swim away	infinitive	me not said here				away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	get	present · perfect	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	drop	to-infinitive	you not said here	me		the water		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme into water=Destination

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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