Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 108
You can see them on any Leopard’s skin you like, Best Beloved.
Who acts: You · What happens: see, like · To what, where: marks, skin
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 (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 see | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 skin | case |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 Leopard | det |
| 7 | Leopard | Leopard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 skin | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Leopard | case |
| 9 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 like | nsubj |
| 11 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 skin | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Beloved | punct |
| 13 | Best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 Beloved | amod |
| 14 | Beloved | Beloved | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 see | parataxis |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | can | You | marks = mark | any Leopard's skin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | like | present | you | any Leopard's skin not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot skin=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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