Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 102
‘I’ll take spots, then,’ said the Leopard; ‘but don’t make ‘em too vulgar-big.
Who acts: I, Leopard · What happens: take, say, not make · To what, where: spots, em · 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 (I, Leopard), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 take | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 take | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Leopard | det |
| 12 | Leopard | Leopard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 make | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 make | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 make | cc |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 make | aux |
| 17 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 make | advmod |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | conj |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 em | punct |
| 20 | em | they | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 make | obl |
| 21 | too | too | ADV | _ | 22 vulgar | advmod |
| 22 | vulgar | vulgar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 make | xcomp |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 big | punct |
| 24 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 vulgar | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | future | I | spots | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Leopard | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not make | infinitive · do-support | the Leopard not said here | em = they | vulgar property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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