Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 67

‘I tried to scoop something that said it wanted to be scooped out of its shell with my paw, and my paw is full of per-ickles,’ said Painted Jaguar.

Who acts: I, tail, paw, Painted Jaguar · What happens: try, scoop, say, want, be · To what, where: something, shell · 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, tail, paw, Painted Jaguar), 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	_	3 tried	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tried	nsubj
3	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 scoop	mark
5	scoop	scoop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tried	xcomp
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 scoop	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 something	acl:relcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wanted	nsubj
10	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	13 scooped	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 scooped	aux:pass
13	scooped	scoop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 wanted	xcomp
14	out	out	ADP	_	17 shell	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 shell	case
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 shell	nmod:poss
17	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 scooped	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 paw	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 paw	nmod:poss
20	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shell	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 full	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 full	cc
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 paw	nmod:poss
24	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 full	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 full	cop
26	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 said	advcl
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 ickles	case
28	per	per	ADP	_	30 ickles	case
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 per	punct
30	ickles	ickle	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 said	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 ickles	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	30 ickles	punct
33	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tried	conj
34	Painted	Painted	PROPN	_	35 Jaguar	compound
35	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 said	nsubj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	past	I				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	scoop not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	something			vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent something=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	want	past	tail				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	scoop not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	tail not said here		tail's shell with my paw		vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: out shell=Trajectory
6	is	present	my paw			full property	tree rules
7	say speech: assert	past	Painted Jaguar			of ickles	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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