Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 47

It smells like Giraffe, and it kicks like Giraffe, but it hasn’t any form.’

Who acts: scramble · What happens: smell, kick, n't · To what, where: scramble

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 (scramble), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 smells	nsubj
2	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 Giraffe	case
4	Giraffe	Giraffe	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 smells	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 kicks	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 kicks	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 kicks	nsubj
8	kicks	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 smells	parataxis
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 Giraffe	case
10	Giraffe	Giraffe	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 kicks	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 n’t	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 n’t	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 n’t	nsubj:pass
14	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 n’t	aux
15	n’t	n't	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 smells	parataxis
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	17 form	det
17	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 n’t	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 smells	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 smells	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	smell	present	scramble		like Giraffe	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	kick	present	scramble		like Giraffe	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	n't	present · perfect · passive		scramble		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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