Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 59
‘That was a very narrow escape,’ said Stickly-Prickly.
Who acts: That, narrow escape · What happens: be, say · To what, where: narrow escape · 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 (That, narrow escape), 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 | _ | 7 escape | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 escape | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 escape | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 escape | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 narrow | advmod |
| 6 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 escape | amod |
| 7 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 escape | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 escape | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Stickly | stickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Prickly | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Stickly | punct |
| 13 | Prickly | prickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | That | a narrow escape | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a narrow escape | prickly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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