Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 117

‘Now come along and we’ll see if we can’t get even with Mr. One-Two-Three Where’s your Breakfast!’

Who acts: you, we · What happens: come along, see, not get · To what, where: Two Three

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, we), 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	_	3 come	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 come	advmod
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	along	along	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 see	cc
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 see	nsubj
7	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 see	aux
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 come	conj
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 get	mark
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 get	nsubj
11	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 get	aux
12	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 get	advmod
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 see	ccomp
14	even	even	ADV	_	16 Mr.	advmod
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 Mr.	case
16	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Three	nsubj
17	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 Mr.	flat
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 One	punct
19	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 Three	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 Two	punct
21	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 get	obj
22	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 ’s	advmod
23	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 Three	acl:relcl
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 Breakfast	nmod:poss
25	Breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ’s	obj
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come along	imperative	you not said here		now	along property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	future	we				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	not get a condition, not said to happen	can	we	Two Three			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer three=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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