Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 52

The Ethiopian scratched his head and said, ‘It ought to be ‘sclusively a rich fulvous orange-tawny from head to heel, and it ought to be Giraffe; but it is covered all over with chestnut blotches.

Who acts: Ethiopian · What happens: scratch, say, be, heel, cover · To what, where: head, rich fulvous orange tawny, Giraffe · 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 (Ethiopian), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Ethiopian	det
2	Ethiopian	Ethiopian	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 scratched	nsubj
3	scratched	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scratched	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scratched	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 heel	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 heel	punct
10	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ought	nsubj
11	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 heel	aux
12	to	to	PART	_	21 tawny	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 tawny	cop
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 tawny	punct
15	sclusively	sclusively	ADV	_	21 tawny	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 tawny	det
17	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tawny	amod
18	fulvous	fulvous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tawny	amod
19	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tawny	amod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 orange	punct
21	tawny	tawny	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ought	xcomp
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 head	case
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tawny	nmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 heel	mark
25	heel	heel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ought	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 ought	cc
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 ought	nsubj
29	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 heel	parataxis
30	to	to	PART	_	32 Giraffe	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 Giraffe	cop
32	Giraffe	Giraffe	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 ought	xcomp
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 covered	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 covered	cc
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 covered	nsubj:pass
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 covered	aux:pass
37	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 scratched	conj
38	all	all	ADV	_	39 over	advmod
39	over	over	ADV	_	37 covered	advmod
40	with	with	ADP	_	42 blotches	case
41	chestnut	chestnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 blotches	compound
42	blotches	blotch	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 covered	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 scratched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	scratch	past	the Ethiopian	Ethiopian's head			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the Ethiopian not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a	to-infinitive		a rich fulvous orange tawny	head	sclusively property	tree rules
4	heel	ought					vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	to-infinitive		Giraffe			tree rules
6	cover	present · passive		head		with chestnut blotches; over property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with blotch=Theme

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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