Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 51

So they sat down on them hard till bright morning-time, and then Leopard said, ‘What have you at your end of the table, Brother?’

Who acts: legs, Leopard, you · What happens: sit down, say, have · To what, where: Brother, end · 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 (legs, Leopard, you), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	obl
7	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sat	advcl
8	till	till	ADP	_	12 time	case
9	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 time	amod
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 time	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 morning	punct
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 said	advmod
16	Leopard	Leopard	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 have	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 have	punct
20	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 have	obj
21	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 said	ccomp
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 have	nsubj
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 end	case
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 end	nmod:poss
25	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 have	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 table	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 table	det
28	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 end	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Brother	punct
30	Brother	Brother	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	legs = leg	Brother	time	on Giraffe	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on they=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	Leopard		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	present	you		at your end of the table		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient

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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