Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 54

And the Leopard scratched his head and said, ‘It ought to be ‘sclusively a delicate greyish-fawn, and it ought to be Zebra; but it is covered all over with black and purple stripes.

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

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	scratch	past	the Leopard	Brother's head		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the Leopard not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	to-infinitive	the Leopard not said here	a delicate greyish fawn	sclusively property	tree rules
4	is a	ought	head	Zebra		tree rules
5	cover	present · passive		head	with black stripes; over property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with stripe=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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