Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 53

‘You’ve mixed up all the things my mother told me to do with the things that you asked me whether I was sure that she didn’t say, till I don’t know whether I’m on my head or my painted tail; and now you come and tell me something I can understand, and it makes me more mixy than before.

Who acts: mother, things, you, I, tail · What happens: mix up, tell, do, ask, be, not say · To what, where: You, things, me, head, something · 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 (mother, things, 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	_	4 mixed	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 mixed	nsubj:pass
3	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mixed	aux:pass
4	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 mixed	compound:prt
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 things	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 things	det
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 told	obl
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mother	nmod:poss
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	nsubj
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mixed	conj
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 do	mark
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 told	xcomp
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 things	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 things	det
17	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 do	obl
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 asked	obj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 asked	nsubj
20	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 things	acl:relcl
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 asked	iobj
22	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	25 sure	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 sure	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sure	cop
25	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 asked	ccomp
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 say	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 say	nsubj
28	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 say	aux
29	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 say	advmod
30	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 sure	ccomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 know	punct
32	till	till	SCONJ	_	36 know	mark
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 know	nsubj
34	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 know	aux
35	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 know	advmod
36	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 say	ccomp
37	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	39 ’m	mark
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 ’m	nsubj
39	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 know	ccomp
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 head	case
41	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 head	nmod:poss
42	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 ’m	obl
43	or	or	CCONJ	_	46 tail	cc
44	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 tail	nmod:poss
45	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 tail	amod
46	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 head	conj
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 come	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 come	cc
49	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	51 come	advmod
50	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	51 come	nsubj
51	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 mixed	parataxis
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 tell	cc
53	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 come	conj
54	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 tell	iobj
55	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	53 tell	obj
56	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	58 understand	nsubj
57	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 understand	aux
58	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 something	acl:relcl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 makes	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 makes	cc
61	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 makes	nsubj
62	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 come	conj
63	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	62 makes	obj
64	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	65 mixy	amod
65	mixy	mixy	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 makes	xcomp
66	than	than	ADP	_	67 before	case
67	before	before	ADV	_	62 makes	advmod
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 mixed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix up	present · passive		You					vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	past	my mother	all things	me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	all things not said here					with the things	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	ask speech: ask	past	you	the things	me				tree rules
5	is	past	I					sure property	tree rules
6	not say speech: assert	past · do-support	mother						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	not know	present · do-support	I						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	be	present	I			my head or my painted tail			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on head=Location
9	paint	participle							vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	come	infinitive	you				now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	something	me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient something=Topic
12	understand	can	I						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
13	make	present	tail	me				before property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material i=Product

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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