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title: Painted Jaguar darted out his paddy-paw just as Stickly-Prickly curl… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Painted Jaguar darted out his paddy-paw just as Stickly-Prickly curled himself up, and of course Jaguar’s paddy-paw was just filled with prickles. Who acts: Painted Jaguar. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Beginning of the Armadillos, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 34

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Painted Jaguar darted out his paddy-paw just as Stickly-Prickly curled himself up, and of course Jaguar’s paddy-paw was just filled with prickles.

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**Who acts:** Painted Jaguar · **What happens:** paint, dart out, curl up, fill · **To what, where:** paddy paw, Jaguar

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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 (Painted Jaguar), 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:pg2781:8:34
# text = Painted Jaguar darted out his paddy-paw just as Stickly-Prickly curled himself up, and of course Jaguar’s paddy-paw was just filled with prickles.
1	Painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	darted	dart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	paddy	paddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	paw	paw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	Stickly	stickly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Prickly	prickly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	curled	curl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
15	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
20	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	fixed	_	_
21	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	paddy	paddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	paw	paw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
27	just	just	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	prickles	prickle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **paint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **dart out** | past | Painted Jaguar | Jaguar's paddy paw |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paw=Agent |
| 3 | **curl up** | participle | Painted Jaguar *not said here* | Jaguar |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 4 | **fill** | past · passive | Painted Jaguar *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Jaguar's paddy paw; with prickles | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: with prickle=Instrument |

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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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