Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 111
‘You can lie out on the bare ground and look like a heap of pebbles.
Who acts: You · What happens: lie out, look · To what, where: bare ground
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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 lie | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 lie | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 lie | aux |
| 4 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 lie | compound:prt |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 ground | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ground | det |
| 8 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ground | amod |
| 9 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lie | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 look | cc |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 lie | conj |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 heap | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 heap | det |
| 14 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 look | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 pebbles | case |
| 16 | pebbles | pebble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 heap | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie out | can | You | the bare ground | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location | ||||
| 2 | look | infinitive | You not said here | like a heap of pebbles | 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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