Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 99

‘Excellent!’ said Stickly-Prickly; ‘but I shouldn’t do any more just now.

Who acts: I · What happens: say, not do · 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 (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	_	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	Stickly	stickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Prickly	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Stickly	punct
8	Prickly	prickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	xcomp
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 do	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 do	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 do	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 do	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 do	aux
14	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 do	advmod
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
16	any	any	ADV	_	17 more	advmod
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 do	advmod
18	just	just	ADV	_	19 now	advmod
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 do	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past						prickly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not do	should	I				now		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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