Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 24

(Say that quickly aloud, and you will see how very shadowy the forest must have been.)

Who acts: you · What happens: say, see, have · To what, where: that, shadowy · 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), 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	(	(	PUNCT	_	2 Say	punct
2	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Say	obj
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 Say	advmod
5	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	2 Say	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 see	cc
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 see	aux
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Say	conj
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 shadowy	advmod
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 shadowy	advmod
13	shadowy	shadowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 see	obj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 forest	det
15	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shadowy	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 shadowy	aux
17	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 shadowy	parataxis
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 have	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Say	punct
20	)	)	PUNCT	_	2 Say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	that	aloud, quickly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic
2	see	future	you	shadowy		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shadowy=Stimulus
3	have	infinitive				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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