Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 130
Let’s--oh, anything, daddy, so long as it’s you and me, And going truly exploring, and not being in till tea!
Who acts: you · What happens: let in, go, explore, not be · To what, where: ’s
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), 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 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 anything | punct |
| 4 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 anything | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 oh | punct |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 daddy | punct |
| 8 | daddy | daddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 anything | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 long | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 long | advmod |
| 11 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Let | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 ’s | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ’s | nsubj |
| 14 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 long | advcl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 ’s | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 me | cc |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 you | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 going | punct |
| 19 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 going | cc |
| 20 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 21 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 22 exploring | advmod |
| 22 | exploring | explore | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 going | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 in | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 in | cc |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 in | advmod |
| 26 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 in | cop |
| 27 | in | in | ADV | _ | 1 Let | compound:prt |
| 28 | till | till | ADP | _ | 29 tea | case |
| 29 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 in | obl |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in | imperative | you not said here | ’s | long property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | gerund | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | explore | gerund | truly property | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not is | gerund | till tea | in property | tree rules |
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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