Just so stories, How the Leopard Got His Spots, sentence 84
‘To a nice working blackish-brownish colour, with a little purple in it, and touches of slaty-blue.
What happens: work
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: 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 | _ | 9 colour | punct |
| 2 | To | to | ADP | _ | 9 colour | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 colour | det |
| 4 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 colour | amod |
| 5 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 colour | amod |
| 6 | blackish | blackish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 colour | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 blackish | punct |
| 8 | brownish | brownish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 colour | amod |
| 9 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 purple | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 purple | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 purple | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 purple | amod |
| 14 | purple | purple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 colour | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 purple | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 touches | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 touches | cc |
| 19 | touches | touch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 colour | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 blue | case |
| 21 | slaty | slaty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 blue | amod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 slaty | punct |
| 23 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 touches | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 colour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | gerund | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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