Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 96
‘Now, if you can unlace my back-plates a little, I’ll see what I can do towards curling up.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: unlace, see, do, curl up · To what, where: back plates · 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, I), 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 | _ | 7 unlace | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 unlace | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 unlace | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 unlace | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 unlace | aux |
| 7 | unlace | unlace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 plates | nmod:poss |
| 9 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 plates | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 back | punct |
| 11 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 unlace | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 little | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 unlace | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 16 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 unlace | conj |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 do | obj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 do | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 do | aux |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 see | ccomp |
| 22 | towards | towards | SCONJ | _ | 23 curling | mark |
| 23 | curling | curl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 do | advcl |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 curling | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 unlace | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unlace | can | you | my back plates | now | a little obl:unmarked | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Patient | ||
| 2 | see | future | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do | can | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | curl up | gerund | I not said here | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme |
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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