Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 78
‘He only draws his head and legs into his shell.
Who acts: Jaguar · What happens: draw · To what, where: head, shell
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), 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 | _ | 4 draws | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 draws | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 draws | advmod |
| 4 | draws | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 draws | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 legs | cc |
| 8 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 head | conj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 shell | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 shell | nmod:poss |
| 11 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 draws | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 draws | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | present | Jaguar | Jaguar's head and legs | into Jaguar's shell result | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent head=Patient into shell=Result |
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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