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title: There are Hedgehogs and Tortoises in other places, of course (there… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: There are Hedgehogs and Tortoises in other places, of course (there are some in my garden); but the real old and clever kind, with their scales lying lippety-lappety one over the other, like pine-cone scales, that lived on the banks of the turbid Amazon in the High and Far-Off Days, are always calle
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# Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 159

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There are Hedgehogs and Tortoises in other places, of course (there are some in my garden); but the real old and clever kind, with their scales lying lippety-lappety one over the other, like pine-cone scales, that lived on the banks of the turbid Amazon in the High and Far-Off Days, are always called Armadillos, because they were so clever.

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**Who acts:** Hedgehogs, some, scales, that, banks · **What happens:** be, lie, live, call · **To what, where:** other places, lippety lappety one, other, banks · **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 (Hedgehogs, some, scales, that), 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:pg2781:8:159
# text = There are Hedgehogs and Tortoises in other places, of course (there are some in my garden); but the real old and clever kind, with their scales lying lippety-lappety one over the other, like pine-cone scales, that lived on the banks of the turbid Amazon in the High and Far-Off Days, are always called Armadillos, because they were so clever.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Tortoises	tortoise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	14	advmod	_	_
11	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	fixed	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	nsubj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
23	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
24	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	scales	scale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
32	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	acl	_	_
33	lippety	lippety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	lappety	lappety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
37	over	over	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	like	like	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
42	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	cone	cone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	scales	scale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	48	nsubj	_	_
48	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
49	on	on	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	turbid	turbid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	_
56	in	in	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
58	High	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	68	amod	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	67	cc	_	_
60	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	67	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	60	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	Off	off	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	Days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	67	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
65	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	67	aux:pass	_	_
66	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	67	advmod	_	_
67	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	58	conj	_	_
68	Armadillos	armadillo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	74	punct	_	_
70	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	74	mark	_	_
71	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	74	nsubj	_	_
72	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	74	cop	_	_
73	so	so	ADV	RB	_	74	advmod	_	_
74	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
75	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | Hedgehogs and Tortoises |  |  | other places; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location |
| 2 | **be** | present | some |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lie** | gerund | places's scales *not said here* | lippety lappety one |  | the other |  | like cone scales | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme |
| 4 | **live** | past | that |  |  | the banks of the turbid Amazon |  | in the High Armadillos | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in armadillo=Location |
| 5 | **call** | present · passive | that *not said here* |  |  |  | day | always, far *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |
| 6 | **is** | past | banks *= bank* |  |  |  |  | clever *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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