Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 36

Giraffe is about seventeen feet high, of a ‘sclusively fulvous golden-yellow from head to heel; and Zebra is about four and a half feet high, of a’sclusively grey-fawn colour from head to heel.’

Who acts: Giraffe, fulvous, Zebra · What happens: be, heel · To what, where: head, four

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 (Giraffe, fulvous, Zebra), 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	Giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 high	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 high	cop
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 seventeen	advmod
4	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 feet	nummod
5	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 high	obl:unmarked
6	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 yellow	punct
8	of	of	SCONJ	_	15 yellow	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 yellow	det
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 yellow	punct
11	sclusively	sclusively	ADV	_	12 fulvous	advmod
12	fulvous	fulvous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 yellow	nsubj
13	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 yellow	amod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 golden	punct
15	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 high	conj
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 head	case
17	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 yellow	obl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 heel	case
19	heel	heel	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 yellow	parataxis
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 four	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 four	cc
22	Zebra	Zebra	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 four	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 four	cop
24	about	about	ADV	_	25 four	advmod
25	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 high	nummod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 feet	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 half	det
28	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	29 feet	compound
29	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 four	conj
30	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 high	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 colour	punct
32	of	of	ADP	_	37 colour	case
33	a’sclusively	a'sclusively	ADV	_	34 grey	advmod
34	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 colour	amod
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 grey	punct
36	fawn	fawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 colour	compound
37	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 high	conj
38	from	from	ADP	_	39 head	case
39	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 colour	nmod
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 heel	case
41	heel	heel	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 colour	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 high	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 high	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Giraffe			seventeen feet obl:unmarked; high property	tree rules
2	be		fulvous		head		tree rules
3	heel	infinitive					vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	Zebra	four and half feet		about property	tree rules
5	be		Giraffe not said here				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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