Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 78
‘Would it surprise you very much to know that you show up in this dark place like a mustard-plaster on a sack of coals?’
Who acts: sunlight, you · What happens: surprise, know, show up · To what, where: you, dark place · 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 (sunlight, you), 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 | _ | 4 surprise | punct |
| 2 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 surprise | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 surprise | nsubj |
| 4 | surprise | surprise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 surprise | obj |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 surprise | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 know | mark |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 surprise | advcl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 show | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 show | nsubj |
| 12 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 know | ccomp |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 show | compound:prt |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 place | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 place | det |
| 16 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 place | amod |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 show | obl |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 plaster | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 plaster | det |
| 20 | mustard | mustard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 plaster | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 mustard | punct |
| 22 | plaster | plaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 place | nmod |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 sack | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 sack | det |
| 25 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 plaster | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 coals | case |
| 27 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 sack | nmod |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 surprise | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 surprise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surprise | would | sunlight | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | sunlight not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | show up | present | you | this dark place like a mustard plaster on a sack of coals | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=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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