Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 98

Stickly-Prickly helped to unlace Tortoise’s back-plates, so that by twisting and straining Slow-and-Solid actually managed to curl up a tiddy wee bit.

Who acts: Stickly Prickly · What happens: help, unlace, twist, strain, manage, curl up · To what, where: back plates, tiddy wee bit

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 (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	Stickly	stickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Prickly	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Stickly	punct
3	Prickly	prickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 helped	nsubj
4	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 unlace	mark
6	unlace	unlace	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 helped	xcomp
7	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 plates	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 Tortoise	case
9	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 plates	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 back	punct
11	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 unlace	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 twisting	punct
13	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	16 twisting	mark
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 so	fixed
15	by	by	SCONJ	_	16 twisting	mark
16	twisting	twist	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 unlace	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 straining	cc
18	straining	strain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 twisting	conj
19	Slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 straining	xcomp
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 Solid	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 Solid	cc
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 and	punct
23	Solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Slow	conj
24	actually	actually	ADV	_	25 managed	advmod
25	managed	manage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 Solid	advcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 curl	mark
27	curl	curl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 managed	xcomp
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 curl	compound:prt
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 bit	det
30	tiddy	tiddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bit	compound
31	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 bit	amod
32	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 curl	obl:unmarked
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 helped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	help	past	Stickly Prickly			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	unlace	to-infinitive	Stickly Prickly not said here	Tortoise's back plates		vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Patient
3	twist	gerund	Stickly Prickly not said here			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	strain	gerund	Stickly Prickly not said here		slow property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent
5	manage	participle	Stickly Prickly not said here		actually property	vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	curl up	to-infinitive	Stickly Prickly not said here	a tiddy wee bit		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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