Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 54

My mother told me that I was to drop one of you two into the water, and as you seem so anxious to be dropped I think you don’t want to be dropped.

Who acts: mother, I, you · What happens: tell, be, seem, drop, think, not want · To what, where: 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 (mother, I, you), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 drop	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 drop	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 drop	cop
8	to	to	PART	_	9 drop	mark
9	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	xcomp
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 drop	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 you	case
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 one	nmod
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 drop	obj
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 water	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 water	det
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drop	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 seem	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 seem	cc
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 seem	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 seem	nsubj
21	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 anxious	advmod
23	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 seem	xcomp
24	to	to	PART	_	26 dropped	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 dropped	aux:pass
26	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 anxious	advcl
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 think	nsubj
28	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 dropped	ccomp
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 do	nsubj
30	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 want	aux
31	n’t	n't	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 want	aux
32	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 think	ccomp
33	to	to	PART	_	35 dropped	mark
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 dropped	aux:pass
35	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 want	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	My mother	me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is not said to happen	past	I		the water	drop property	tree rules
3	seem	present	you			anxious property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	drop	to-infinitive · passive	you not said here				tree rules
5	think speech: other	present	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	not want	present · do-support					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	drop not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»

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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