Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 65

‘Now watch,’ said the Zebra and the Giraffe.

Who acts: Zebra · What happens: watch, say · 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 (Zebra), 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	_	3 watch	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 watch	advmod
3	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 watch	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 watch	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Zebra	det
8	Zebra	Zebra	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Giraffe	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Giraffe	det
11	Giraffe	Giraffe	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Zebra	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	infinitive					now		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the Zebra and the Giraffe						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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