Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 115
‘But if I’m all this,’ said the Leopard, ‘why didn’t you go spotty too?’
Who acts: I, Leopard, you · What happens: be, say, not go · To what, where: this · 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 (I, Leopard, 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 ’m | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 ’m | nsubj |
| 5 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | advcl |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 this | det:predet |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 ’m | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ’m | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 ’m | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Leopard | det |
| 12 | Leopard | Leopard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 go | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 go | punct |
| 15 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 go | advmod |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 go | aux |
| 17 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 go | advmod |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 go | nsubj |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 20 | spotty | spotty | ADV | _ | 19 go | advmod |
| 21 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 go | advmod |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be a condition, not said to happen | present | I | this | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot this=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Leopard | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not go | past · do-support | you | spotty property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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