Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 69
Leopard stared, and Ethiopian stared, but all they could see were stripy shadows and blotched shadows in the forest, but never a sign of Zebra and Giraffe.
Who acts: Leopard, Ethiopian, breakfasts · What happens: stare, see, be, blotch, sign · To what, where: stripy shadows, Zebra
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, Ethiopian, breakfasts), 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 | Leopard | Leopard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 stared | nsubj |
| 2 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stared | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 stared | cc |
| 5 | Ethiopian | Ethiopian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stared | nsubj |
| 6 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stared | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 all | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 all | cc |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 shadows | det |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 see | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 see | aux |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 all | acl:relcl |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 shadows | cop |
| 14 | stripy | stripy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 shadows | amod |
| 15 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stared | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 shadows | cc |
| 17 | blotched | blotch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 shadows | amod |
| 18 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 shadows | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 forest | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 forest | det |
| 21 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stared | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sign | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 sign | cc |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 26 sign | advmod |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 sign | det |
| 26 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stared | parataxis |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Zebra | case |
| 28 | Zebra | Zebra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 sign | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 Giraffe | cc |
| 30 | Giraffe | Giraffe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Zebra | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | past | Leopard | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | stare | past | Ethiopian | in the forest | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in forest=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | could | breakfasts = breakfast | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | all stripy shadows and blotched shadows | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | blotch | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | sign | Zebra and Giraffe | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=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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