Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 82
It’s a great pity that you can’t swim, Stickly-Prickly.’
Who acts: Stickly, you · What happens: be, not swim · To what, where: great pity
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 (Stickly, you), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pity | nsubj |
| 2 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pity | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pity | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pity | amod |
| 5 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 swim | obj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 swim | nsubj |
| 8 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 swim | aux |
| 9 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 swim | advmod |
| 10 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pity | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Prickly | punct |
| 12 | Stickly | stickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Prickly | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Stickly | punct |
| 14 | Prickly | prickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pity | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pity | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 pity | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Stickly | a great pity | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not swim | can | you | a great pity | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | be | Stickly not said here | tree rules |
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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