Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 129

Let’s say things to the bunnies, and watch ‘em skitter their tails!

Who acts: you, ’s, em · What happens: let, say, watch, skitter · To what, where: ’s, things, bunnies, tails · 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 (you, ’s, em), 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	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 bunnies	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bunnies	det
7	bunnies	bunny	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 watch	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 watch	cc
10	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	parataxis
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 skitter	punct
12	em	em	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 skitter	nsubj
13	skitter	skitter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 watch	conj
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 tails	nmod:poss
15	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 skitter	obj
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	’s		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	’s not said here	things	the bunnies	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Topic to bunny=Recipient
3	watch	infinitive				vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	skitter	present	em	bunnies's tails		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Agent

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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