Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 7

When he could not catch deer or monkeys he would eat frogs and beetles; and when he could not catch frogs and beetles he went to his Mother Jaguar, and she told him how to eat hedgehogs and tortoises.

Who acts: Jaguar, Tortoise · What happens: not catch, eat, go, tell · To what, where: deer, frogs, beetles, Mother Jaguar, Jaguar, hedgehogs · 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 (Jaguar, Tortoise), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 catch	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 catch	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 catch	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 catch	advmod
5	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 catch	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 monkeys	cc
8	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 deer	conj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 eat	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 eat	aux
11	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 monkeys	acl:relcl
12	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 eat	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 beetles	cc
14	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 frogs	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 catch	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 catch	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 catch	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 catch	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 catch	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 catch	advmod
21	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 catch	conj
22	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 catch	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 beetles	cc
24	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 frogs	conj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 went	nsubj
26	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 beetles	acl:relcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 Jaguar	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 Mother	nmod:poss
29	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Jaguar	compound
30	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 went	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 told	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 told	cc
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 told	nsubj
34	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 catch	advcl
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 told	iobj
36	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	38 eat	advmod
37	to	to	PART	_	38 eat	mark
38	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 told	xcomp
39	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 eat	obj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 tortoises	cc
41	tortoises	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 hedgehogs	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 catch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not catch	could	Jaguar	deer or monkeys		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme
2	eat	would	Jaguar	frogs and beetles		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Patient
3	not catch	could	Jaguar	frogs and beetles		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Theme
4	go	past	Jaguar	beetles not said here	Mother Jaguar	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beetle=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	past	Tortoise		Jaguar	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	Tortoise not said here	hedgehogs and tortoises		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hedgehog=Patient

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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