Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 103

I wouldn’t look like Giraffe--not for ever so.’

Who acts: I · What happens: not look

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), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 look	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 look	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 look	advmod
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 Giraffe	case
6	Giraffe	Giraffe	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 look	obl
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 ever	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 ever	advmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 ever	case
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 so	advmod
11	so	so	ADV	_	4 look	advmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not look	would	I					like Giraffe	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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