Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 66

‘Son, son!’ said his mother ever so many times, graciously waving her tail, ‘what have you been doing that you shouldn’t have done?’

Who acts: Son, you · What happens: say, wave, do, not do · To what, where: mother, tail · 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 (Son, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Son	punct
2	Son	Son	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 son	punct
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Son	appos
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Son	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Son	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mother	nmod:poss
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 many	advmod
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 many	advmod
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 times	amod
13	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 waving	punct
15	graciously	graciously	ADV	_	16 waving	advmod
16	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 said	advcl
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 tail	nmod:poss
18	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 waving	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 doing	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 doing	punct
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 have	obj
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 doing	aux
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 doing	aux
25	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 waving	conj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 done	mark
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 done	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 done	aux
29	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 done	advmod
30	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 done	aux
31	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 doing	advcl
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	25 doing	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 waving	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Son	son's mother	time		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mother=Topic
2	wave	gerund	Son not said here	mother's tail		graciously property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
3	do	present · perfect · progressive	Son not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not do	should · perfect	you				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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