Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 114
Think of that and purr!’
Who acts: you · What happens: think, purr
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 | Think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 that | case |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Think | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 purr | cc |
| 5 | purr | purr | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Think | conj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | imperative | you not said here | of that | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | purr | present | you not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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