Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 128
Let’s go up to the pig-sties and sit on the farmyard rails!
Who acts: you, ’s · What happens: let, go up, sit · To what, where: ’s, farmyard rails
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, ’s), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | ’s | we | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 go | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 sties | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sties | det |
| 7 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sties | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 pig | punct |
| 9 | sties | sty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 go | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sit | cc |
| 11 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 rails | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rails | det |
| 14 | farmyard | farmyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rails | compound |
| 15 | rails | rail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sit | obl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | ’s | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go up | infinitive | ’s not said here | to the pig sties | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | sit | present | you not said here | the farmyard rails | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rail=Location |
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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