Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 25

‘What is this,’ said the Leopard, ‘that is so ‘sclusively dark, and yet so full of little pieces of light?’

Who acts: that · What happens: be, say · To what, where: this · 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 (that), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 said	nsubj:outer
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 this	cop
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 What	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Leopard	det
9	Leopard	Leopard	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dark	punct
11	‘	‘	SCONJ	_	17 dark	mark
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 dark	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 dark	cop
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 dark	advmod
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 dark	punct
16	sclusively	sclusively	ADV	_	17 dark	advmod
17	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 full	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 full	cc
20	yet	yet	ADV	_	22 full	advmod
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 full	advmod
22	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 pieces	case
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 pieces	amod
25	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 full	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 light	case
27	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pieces	nmod
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		this		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	that		dark, sclusively 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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