Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 29
‘I suppose it is because we have just come in out of the sunshine.
Who acts: I, we · What happens: suppose, be, come in · To what, where: shadowy, sunshine
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, we), 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 | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 suppose | nsubj |
| 3 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 suppose | obj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 it | cop |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 come | mark |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 come | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 come | aux |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 come | advmod |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 suppose | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADV | _ | 10 come | advmod |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 sunshine | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 sunshine | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sunshine | det |
| 15 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 come | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | shadowy | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | come in | present | we | the sunshine | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out sunshine=Initial_Location |
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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