--- title: On the other hand, if you think she said that you were to uncoil me… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics description: On the other hand, if you think she said that you were to uncoil me with a scoop, instead of pawing me into drops with a shell, I can’t help that, can I?’ Who acts: you, mother, I. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Beginning of the Armadillos, with its dependency tree and the p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/8/46/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Just so stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/) / [The Beginning of the Armadillos](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/8/) / 46 # Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 46 On the other hand, if you think she said that you were to uncoil me with a scoop, instead of pawing me into drops with a shell, I can’t help that, can I?’ **Who acts:** you, mother, I · **What happens:** think, say, uncoil, paw, not help · **To what, where:** me, drops, that, other hand · **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 (you, mother, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2781:8:46 # text = On the other hand, if you think she said that you were to uncoil me with a scoop, instead of pawing me into drops with a shell, I can’t help that, can I?’ 1 On on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 if if SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 11 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 uncoil uncoil VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 16 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 scoop scoop NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 23 mark _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 21 fixed _ _ 23 pawing paw VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 24 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 into into ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 drops drop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 32 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 33 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 35 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 38 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ? ? PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | mother | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **uncoil** | past | you | me | | | | with a scoop | vn separate-23.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | | 4 | **paw** | gerund | mother *not said here* | me | | | | into drops *result*; with a shell | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent i=Patient into drop=Result with shell=Instrument | | 5 | **not** **help** | can | I | that | | the other hand | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/8/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/8/47/) - ↑ back to [The Beginning of the Armadillos](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/8/)