Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 70
They had just walked off and hidden themselves in the shadowy forest.
Who acts: breakfasts · What happens: walk off, hide · To what, where: breakfasts, shadowy forest
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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walked | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 walked | advmod |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 walked | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hidden | cc |
| 7 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 walked | conj |
| 8 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 hidden | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 forest | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 forest | det |
| 11 | shadowy | shadowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 forest | amod |
| 12 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hidden | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk off | past · perfect | breakfasts = breakfast | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hide | participle | breakfasts = breakfast not said here | breakfasts = breakfast | the shadowy forest | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient in forest=Location |
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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