Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 107

Then the Ethiopian put his five fingers close together (there was plenty of black left on his new skin still) and pressed them all over the Leopard, and wherever the five fingers touched they left five little black marks, all close together.

Who acts: Ethiopian, plenty, five fingers, spots · What happens: put, be, leave, press, touch · To what, where: five fingers, plenty, new skin, spots, five little black marks

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 (Ethiopian, plenty, five fingers, spots), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 put	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Ethiopian	det
3	Ethiopian	Ethiopian	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 put	nsubj
4	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 fingers	nmod:poss
6	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 fingers	nummod
7	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 put	obj
8	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 put	xcomp
9	together	together	ADV	_	4 put	advmod
10	(	(	PUNCT	_	12 was	punct
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 was	expl
12	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	parataxis
13	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 was	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 black	case
15	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 plenty	nmod
16	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 plenty	acl
17	on	on	ADP	_	20 skin	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 skin	nmod:poss
19	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 skin	amod
20	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 left	obl
21	still	still	ADV	_	16 left	advmod
22	)	)	PUNCT	_	16 left	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 pressed	cc
24	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 pressed	obj
26	all	all	ADV	_	29 Leopard	advmod
27	over	over	ADP	_	29 Leopard	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Leopard	det
29	Leopard	Leopard	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 pressed	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 left	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 left	cc
32	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	36 touched	advmod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 fingers	det
34	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 fingers	nummod
35	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 touched	nsubj
36	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 left	advcl
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 left	nsubj
38	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	conj
39	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 marks	nummod
40	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 marks	amod
41	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 marks	amod
42	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 left	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 close	punct
44	all	all	ADV	_	45 close	advmod
45	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 left	advmod
46	together	together	ADV	_	45 close	advmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	the Ethiopian	Ethiopian's five fingers		then	close, together property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent finger=Goal
2	be	past	plenty of black		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	leave	participle		plenty of black not said here	Ethiopian's new skin	still		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on skin=Location
4	press	past	the Ethiopian not said here	spots = spot			over the Leopard	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	touch	past	the five fingers				wherever property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	leave	past	spots = spot	five little black marks			close property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Theme

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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