Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 41
‘For goodness’ sake,’ said the Leopard at tea-time, ‘let us wait till it gets dark.
Who acts: Leopard, us, sake · What happens: say, let, wait, get · To what, where: us · 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 (Leopard, us, sake), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 5 sake | case |
| 3 | goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sake | compound |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 goodness | punct |
| 5 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sake | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 sake | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Leopard | det |
| 10 | Leopard | Leopard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 12 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 time | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 tea | punct |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 let | obj |
| 19 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 let | xcomp |
| 20 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 22 gets | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gets | nsubj |
| 22 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 wait | advcl |
| 23 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 gets | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Leopard | time | for goodness sake | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wait | infinitive | us not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get | present | sake | dark property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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