Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 84

‘Just think how much better it would be if you could curl up.

Who acts: you, Stickly · What happens: think, be

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 (you, Stickly), 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	_	3 think	punct
2	Just	just	ADV	_	3 think	advmod
3	think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 better	advmod
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 think	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 curl	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 curl	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 curl	cop
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 curl	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 curl	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 curl	aux
13	curl	curl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 think	conj
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 curl	compound:prt
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	imperative	you not said here						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a condition, not said to happen	could	Stickly					curl property	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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