Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 23

That puzzled the Leopard and the Ethiopian, but they set off to look for the aboriginal Flora, and presently, after ever so many days, they saw a great, high, tall forest full of tree trunks all ‘sclusively speckled and sprottled and spottled, dotted and splashed and slashed and hatched and cross-hatched with shadows.

Who acts: That, breakfasts · What happens: puzzle, set off, look, see, speckle, sprottl · To what, where: Leopard, great high tall forest

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 (That, 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 puzzled	nsubj
2	puzzled	puzzle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Leopard	det
4	Leopard	Leopard	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 puzzled	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Ethiopian	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Ethiopian	det
7	Ethiopian	Ethiopian	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Leopard	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 set	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 set	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 set	nsubj
11	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 puzzled	conj
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 set	compound:prt
13	to	to	PART	_	14 look	mark
14	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 set	advcl
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 Flora	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Flora	det
17	aboriginal	aboriginal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Flora	amod
18	Flora	Flora	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 look	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 presently	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 presently	cc
21	presently	presently	ADV	_	2 puzzled	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 days	punct
23	after	after	ADP	_	27 days	case
24	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	26 many	advmod
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 many	advmod
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 days	amod
27	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 puzzled	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 saw	punct
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 saw	nsubj
30	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 puzzled	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 forest	det
32	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 forest	amod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 great	punct
34	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 forest	amod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 high	punct
36	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 forest	amod
37	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 saw	obj
38	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 forest	amod
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 trunks	case
40	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 trunks	compound
41	trunks	trunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 full	obl
42	all	all	ADV	_	45 speckled	advmod
43	‘	'	PUNCT	_	45 speckled	punct
44	sclusively	sclusively	ADV	_	45 speckled	advmod
45	speckled	speckle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 forest	advcl
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 sprottled	cc
47	sprottled	sprottl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 speckled	conj
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 spottled	cc
49	spottled	spottl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 speckled	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 dotted	punct
51	dotted	dot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 speckled	conj
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 splashed	cc
53	splashed	splash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	51 dotted	conj
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 slashed	cc
55	slashed	slash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 splashed	conj
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 hatched	cc
57	hatched	hatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	55 slashed	conj
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 cross-hatched	cc
59	cross-hatched	cross-hatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	57 hatched	conj
60	with	with	ADP	_	61 shadows	case
61	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 cross-hatched	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 puzzled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	puzzle	past	That	the Leopard and the Ethiopian	day	presently property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus leopard=Experiencer
2	set off	past	breakfasts = breakfast				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	to-infinitive	breakfasts = breakfast not said here			for the aboriginal Flora	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for flora=Theme
4	see	past	breakfasts = breakfast	a great high tall forest			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer forest=Stimulus
5	speckle	participle	breakfasts = breakfast not said here			all, sclusively property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
6	sprottl	participle	breakfasts = breakfast not said here				tree rules
7	spottl	participle	breakfasts = breakfast not said here				tree rules
8	dot	participle	breakfasts = breakfast not said here				vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
9	splash	participle	breakfasts = breakfast not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	slash	participle	breakfasts = breakfast not said here				vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
11	hatch	participle	breakfasts = breakfast not said here				vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient
12	cross-hatch	participle	breakfasts = breakfast not said here			with shadows	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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