Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 75
‘I don’t like this old lady one little bit,’ said Stickly-Prickly, under the shadow of a large leaf.
Who acts: I · What happens: not like, say, shadow · To what, where: old lady, large leaf · 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), 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 | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 like | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 like | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 lady | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lady | amod |
| 8 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 like | obj |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 bit | nummod |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bit | amod |
| 11 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 like | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Stickly | stickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Prickly | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Stickly | punct |
| 17 | Prickly | prickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 shadow | punct |
| 19 | under | under | ADP | _ | 21 shadow | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 shadow | det |
| 21 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | ccomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 leaf | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 leaf | det |
| 24 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 leaf | amod |
| 25 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shadow | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like | present · do-support | I | this old lady | one little bit obl:unmarked | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lady=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | prickly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | shadow | a large leaf | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=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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