Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 118
So they went away and lived happily ever afterward, Best Beloved.
Who acts: breakfasts · What happens: go away, live · To what, where: Best Beloved
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 (breakfasts), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 lived | cc |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 7 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 6 lived | advmod |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 afterward | advmod |
| 9 | afterward | afterward | ADV | _ | 6 lived | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Beloved | punct |
| 11 | Best | Good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Beloved | flat |
| 12 | Beloved | Beloved | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | breakfasts = breakfast | Best Beloved | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | live | past | breakfasts = breakfast not said here | afterward, happily property | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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