Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 73

A Hedgehog curls himself up into a ball and his prickles stick out every which way at once.

Who acts: Hedgehog, prickles · What happens: curl up, stick out · To what, where: Hedgehog, ball, way

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 (Hedgehog, prickles), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Hedgehog	det
2	Hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 curls	nsubj
3	curls	curl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 curls	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 curls	compound:prt
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 ball	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ball	det
8	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 curls	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stick	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 prickles	nmod:poss
11	prickles	prickle	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 stick	nsubj
12	stick	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 curls	conj
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 stick	compound:prt
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 way	det
15	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	16 way	det
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stick	obl:unmarked
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 once	case
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 stick	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 curls	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curl up	present	a Hedgehog	Hedgehog		a ball			vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into ball=Destination
2	stick out	present	Hedgehog's prickles	every way					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme at once=Destination

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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