Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 121

I don’t think even grown-ups would keep on saying such a silly thing if the Leopard and the Ethiopian hadn’t done it once--do you?

Who acts: I, grown ups, Leopard · What happens: not think, grow, keep, say, not do, do · To what, where: silly thing, skin, you · 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, grown ups, Leopard), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 think	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 think	advmod
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	even	even	ADV	_	8 ups	advmod
6	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 ups	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 grown	punct
8	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 keep	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 keep	aux
10	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 think	ccomp
11	on	on	SCONJ	_	12 saying	mark
12	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 keep	advcl
13	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	16 thing	det:predet
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 thing	det
15	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 thing	amod
16	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saying	obj
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 done	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Leopard	det
19	Leopard	Leopard	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 done	nsubj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 Ethiopian	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Ethiopian	det
22	Ethiopian	Ethiopian	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Leopard	conj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 done	aux
24	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 done	advmod
25	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 keep	advcl
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 done	obj
27	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	25 done	advmod
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	29 do	punct
29	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 think	parataxis
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 do	obj
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	present · do-support	I			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	keep	would	grown ups			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	gerund	grown ups not said here	such silly thing		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
5	not do a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	the Leopard and the Ethiopian	skin	once property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
6	do	present		you		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality

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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