Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 94

‘Excellent!’ said Slow-and-Solid; and he held up Stickly-Prickly’s chin, while Stickly-Prickly kicked in the waters of the turbid Amazon.

Who acts: escape, Stickly Prickly · What happens: say, hold up, kick · To what, where: Prickly chin, waters · 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 (escape, Stickly Prickly), 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	_	2 Excellent	punct
2	Excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	parataxis
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Excellent	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Excellent	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	xcomp
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Slow	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Solid	cc
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Solid	punct
10	Solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Slow	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 held	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 held	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 held	nsubj
14	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 held	compound:prt
16	Stickly	stickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Prickly	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 Stickly	punct
18	Prickly	prickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 chin	amod
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 Prickly	case
20	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 held	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 kicked	punct
22	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 kicked	mark
23	Stickly	Stickly	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Prickly	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 Stickly	punct
25	Prickly	Prickly	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 kicked	nsubj
26	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 held	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 waters	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 waters	det
29	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 kicked	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 Amazon	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Amazon	det
32	turbid	turbid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Amazon	amod
33	Amazon	amazon	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 waters	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past				slow property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	hold up	past	escape	Prickly chin			vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot chin=Theme
3	kick	past	Stickly Prickly		the waters of the turbid Amazon		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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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