Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 27

I can smell Giraffe, and I can hear Giraffe, but I can’t see Giraffe.’

Who acts: I · What happens: smell, hear, not see · To what, where: Giraffe

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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 smell	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 smell	aux
3	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	Giraffe	Giraffe	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 smell	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hear	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hear	cc
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 hear	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 hear	aux
9	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 smell	conj
10	Giraffe	Giraffe	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 hear	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 see	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 see	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 see	nsubj
14	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 see	aux
15	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 see	advmod
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 smell	conj
17	Giraffe	Giraffe	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 see	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 smell	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 smell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	smell	can	I	Giraffe	vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer giraffe=Stimulus
2	hear	can	I	Giraffe	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer giraffe=Stimulus
3	not see	can	I	Giraffe	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer giraffe=Stimulus

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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