Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 38
‘Then they ought to show up in this dark place like ripe bananas in a smokehouse.’
What happens: show up · To what, where: dark place
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: 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 | _ | 6 show | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 ought | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ought | nsubj |
| 4 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 show | aux |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 show | mark |
| 6 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 show | compound:prt |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 place | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 place | det |
| 10 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 place | amod |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 show | obl |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 bananas | case |
| 13 | ripe | ripe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bananas | amod |
| 14 | bananas | banana | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 place | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 smokehouse | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 smokehouse | det |
| 17 | smokehouse | smokehouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bananas | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 show | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show up | ought | this dark place like ripe bananas in a smokehouse | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=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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