Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 83

‘Don’t talk to me,’ said Stickly-Prickly.

What happens: not talk, say · To what, where: me · 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: 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 talk	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 talk	aux
3	n’t	n't	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 talk	aux
4	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 talk	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 talk	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 talk	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Stickly	stickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Prickly	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Stickly	punct
12	Prickly	prickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	xcomp
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not talk	infinitive · do-support			me				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-Agent
2	say speech: assert	past						prickly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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