Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 95
‘You’ll make a fine swimmer yet,’ said Slow-and-Solid.
Who acts: You · What happens: make, say · To what, where: fine swimmer · 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 (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 make | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 swimmer | det |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 swimmer | amod |
| 7 | swimmer | swimmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 8 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 4 make | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | xcomp |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Slow | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Solid | cc |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 and | punct |
| 16 | Solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Slow | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | future | You | a fine swimmer | yet | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swimmer=Product | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | slow 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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