Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 109

Sometimes the fingers slipped and the marks got a little blurred; but if you look closely at any Leopard now you will see that there are always five spots--off five fat black finger-tips.

Who acts: fingers, marks, you, five spots · What happens: slip, get, blur, look, see, be · To what, where: little · 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 (fingers, marks, you, five 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 slipped	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fingers	det
3	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 slipped	nsubj
4	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 got	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 marks	det
7	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 slipped	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 little	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 blurred	obl:unmarked
11	blurred	blur	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 got	xcomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 look	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 look	cc
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 look	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 look	nsubj
16	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 slipped	conj
17	closely	closely	ADV	_	16 look	advmod
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 Leopard	case
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 Leopard	det
20	Leopard	Leopard	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 look	obl
21	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 look	advmod
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 see	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 see	aux
24	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 look	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 are	mark
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 are	expl
27	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 see	ccomp
28	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	29 five	advmod
29	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 spots	nummod
30	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 are	nsubj
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	38 tips	punct
32	off	off	ADP	_	38 tips	case
33	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 tips	nummod
34	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 tips	amod
35	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 tips	amod
36	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 tips	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 finger	punct
38	tips	tip	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 spots	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 slipped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip	past	the fingers				sometimes property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	get	past	the marks					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	blur	participle	the marks not said here	a little				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	look a condition, not said to happen	present	you			now	at any Leopard; closely property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at leopard=Theme
5	see	future	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	does	present	five spots and five fat black finger tips		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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