Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 82

He told me I ought to change; and as I’ve nothing to change except my skin I’m going to change that.’

Who acts: Baviaan, I · What happens: tell, change, have, be, go · To what, where: me, nothing, that · 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 (Baviaan, I), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 change	nsubj
5	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 change	aux
6	to	to	PART	_	7 change	mark
7	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	ccomp
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 ’m	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 ’m	cc
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 ’ve	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 ’ve	nsubj
12	’ve	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 ’m	advcl
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 ’ve	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 change	mark
15	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 nothing	acl
16	except	except	ADP	_	18 skin	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 skin	nmod:poss
18	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 change	obl
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 ’m	nsubj
20	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
21	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 ’m	xcomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 change	mark
23	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 going	xcomp
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 change	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Baviaan		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	change not said to happen	ought	I				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	present	I	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
4	change	to-infinitive	I not said here	nothing not said here		except my skin	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	be	present	I				tree rules
6	go	gerund	I not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	change	to-infinitive	I not said here	that			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2781/5/82/