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title: Now I’ll try that exercise of putting my hind legs round my ears whi… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Now I’ll try that exercise of putting my hind legs round my ears which you say is so peculiarly comfortable. Who acts: I, exercise, you. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Beginning of the Armadillos, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 116

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Now I’ll try that exercise of putting my hind legs round my ears which you say is so peculiarly comfortable.

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**Who acts:** I, exercise, you · **What happens:** try, put, say, be · **To what, where:** hind legs, ears · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, exercise, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2781:8:116
# text = Now I’ll try that exercise of putting my hind legs round my ears which you say is so peculiarly comfortable.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	exercise	exercise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	putting	put	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	hind	hind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	round	round	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	peculiarly	peculiarly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | future | I |  |  |  | now |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **put** | gerund | that exercise *not said here* | my hind legs |  |  |  | round my ears | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent leg=Goal |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you | my ears |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | present | that exercise |  |  |  |  | comfortable, peculiarly *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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