Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 10

They had a beautiful time in the ‘sclusively speckly-spickly shadows of the forest, while the Leopard and the Ethiopian ran about over the ‘sclusively greyish-yellowish-reddish High Veldt outside, wondering where all their breakfasts and their dinners and their teas had gone.

Who acts: Giraffe, Leopard, breakfasts · What happens: have, run about, wonder, go, shadow · To what, where: greyish reddish High Veldt, forest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Leopard Got His Spots. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Giraffe, Leopard, breakfasts), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 time	det
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	13 shadows	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shadows	det
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 shadows	punct
9	sclusively	sclusively	ADV	_	12 spickly	advmod
10	speckly	speckly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 spickly	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 speckly	punct
12	spickly	spickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 shadows	amod
13	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 time	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 forest	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 forest	det
16	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shadows	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ran	punct
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 ran	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Leopard	det
20	Leopard	Leopard	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 ran	nsubj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 Ethiopian	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Ethiopian	det
23	Ethiopian	Ethiopian	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Leopard	conj
24	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
25	about	about	ADV	_	24 ran	advmod
26	over	over	ADP	_	36 Veldt	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Veldt	det
28	‘	'	PUNCT	_	36 Veldt	punct
29	sclusively	sclusively	ADV	_	30 greyish	advmod
30	greyish	greyish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 Veldt	amod
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 greyish	punct
32	yellowish	yellowish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 reddish	amod
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 yellowish	punct
34	reddish	reddish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 Veldt	amod
35	High	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 Veldt	amod
36	Veldt	Veldt	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 ran	obl
37	outside	outside	ADV	_	24 ran	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 wondering	punct
39	wondering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 ran	advcl
40	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	51 gone	advmod
41	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 breakfasts	det:predet
42	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 breakfasts	nmod:poss
43	breakfasts	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 gone	nsubj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 dinners	cc
45	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 dinners	nmod:poss
46	dinners	dinner	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 breakfasts	conj
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 teas	cc
48	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 teas	nmod:poss
49	teas	tea	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 breakfasts	conj
50	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 gone	aux
51	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 wondering	ccomp
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Giraffe			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	run about	past	the Leopard and the Ethiopian		the greyish reddish High Veldt		about, outside property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over veldt=Trajectory
3	wonder speech: ask	gerund	the Leopard and the Ethiopian not said here					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	go	past · perfect	Giraffe's breakfasts and Giraffe's dinners and Giraffe's teas					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	shadow			the forest				nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient

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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